Dublin’s crack cocaine epidemic: ‘You get a rush. You come down. And then you have to go again’
Crack cocaine is the new heroin, say addicts and frontline support workers, its use and widespread availability an epidemic that is getting worse
Merchants Quay
Dangerous synthetic heroin continuing to cause overdoses in Dublin
Nitazene can be 25 times stronger than fentanyl and was first detected last November when it caused 57 overdoses in four-day period
Medically supervised drug injection facility to open in Dublin
Merchant’s Quay Ireland says location will be safer, and will remove some open drug use and litter from streets
Brianna Parkins: There should be no moral superiority assigned to different types of addiction
Don’t pretend a drug dependency is acceptable because you can do it at a work function
On the streets in Dublin: ‘The younger generation are horrible little b****rds to homeless people’
Many of the homeless people that Dublin Simon workers Roisin Casey and Elvira Merello deal with find themselves defenceless and marginalised in society
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