Nearly 9,200 heroin addicts are currently in receipt of methadone, according to the HSE.
It has dropped from almost 9,400 at the end of 2010.
Only HSE South recorded an increase. But addiction experts warn that the figures do not mean heroin usage has dropped or that there are sufficient treatment facilities, particularly outside Dublin.
"The myth needs to be shot down that the heroin problem is going away," said Dr Garreth McGovern of GPs Specialising in Substance Abuse.
Source: Cormac O’Keeffe, Irish Examiner, 21/06/2011
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