Skip Navigation

Judge criticises lack of treatment for addicts in Cork jail

A prisioner facing a long sentence for dealing heroin who carried heroin, cannabis and 180 anti-depressant tablets into prison inside his body was given an additional year in jail yesterday.

The judge said it was regrettable Cork Prison did not have a methadone treatment programme for addicts serving sentences.
 
Read more...
 
Source: Liam Heylin, The Irish Examiner, 04/12/2010
 
Posted by Andy on 12/05 at 11:50 AM in
Share this:
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • LinkedIn
  • E-mail
(0) Comments

Comments

Name:

Email:

URL:

Comments:

Remember my personal information

Notify me of follow-up comments?

Enter this word:


Here:

safer student nights Safer Student Nights
The HSE and Union of Students in Ireland (USI) ask students to think about drug safety measures when using club drugs
Harm reduction messages from the #SaferStudentNights campaign.
NewslettereBulletin
Poll Poll

Have you ever been impacted negatively by someone else's drug taking?