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Recreational drug use ‘feeding’ local gang intimidation

Recreational users buying small amounts of drugs at the weekend are directly “feeding” gangland violence and intimidation in local communities, according to a new awareness campaign.

The campaign — driven by a four-minute animated video — points out that this trade has a “corrosive” effect on entire communities.

The initiative, It Always Harms Someone, was produced by Safer Blanchardstown, a drug project in west Dublin, and launched at the weekend.

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Source: Cormac O'Keeffe, The Irish Examiner, 24/10/16 

Posted by drugs.ie on 10/24 at 08:53 AM in
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