The city centre this afternoon: used needles, a crack pipe – and a syringe just yards from playing children.
It's just under a year since TheJournal.ie first took a tour of the injecting alleys and laneways of Dublin city centre.
12 months on, there’s not much change to report.
The lanes are still littered with used syringes and other paraphernalia.
In one part of town, just off Ormond Quay, we found a used needle just a few dozen yards from a packed children’s playground.
Blood-stained tissues, alcohol wipes and tinfoil were strewn in the same doorway near that play area – along with what looked like a broken crack pipe.
“All this means is that somebody has been down here predominantly injecting opiates – so the risk of overdose is great,” the Ana Liffey Drug Project’s Tony Duffin, our guide this afternoon, explained.
Source: TheJournal.ie, 05/06/15