Addicts taking the highly dangerous synthetic substance MDPV are being told by dealers it is the equally lethal crystal meth.
A horrofic new designer drug is sweeping the streets of the country’s capital.
Addicts taking the highly dangerous synthetic substance MDPV are being told by dealers it is the equally lethal crystal meth.
Treatment service the Ana Liffey Centre said the drug has started to flood inner city Dublin in the last two months.
Director Tony Duffin told the Irish Daily Mirror: “It acts as a stimulant similar to cocaine.
“We would have seen it previously years ago in products like NRG, one of the head shop drugs that people would have been taking.
“The difficulty is that what people believe to be methamphetamine is in fact MDPV. That’s obviously an issue.
“It’s not that it’s better or worse, just that people are purchasing something believing that it’s something else.”
MDPV is being sold on the streets for as little as €20 a bag. Like methamphetamine, the drug at the centre of hit TV series Breaking Bad, it has devastating affects on its users.
Source: James Ward, Irish Mirror, 18/09/14
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