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25-year-old man died after taking little known synthetic drug in Clare pub

A 25-year old Co Clare man was dead – and a second man had a lucky escape – within hours of the two unknowingly taking a little known synthetic drug at a pub in Miltown Malbay last September.

In the tragedy, taxi-driver, PJ Lysaght was pronounced dead before midnight on September 3rd last year after snorting what he thought was MDMA -or the drug Ecstasy – at a pub in the west Clare town at around 7pm that evening.

However, a toxicology report presented to the Coroner’s Court in Ennis showed that Mr Lysaght had also taken the synthetic drug, PMMA.

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Source: Gordon Deegan, The Journal.ie, 27/03/18 

Posted by drugs.ie on 03/28 at 08:19 AM in
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