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THEY’RE SCRATCHING THEMSELVES, there’s big scabs all over them. It’s like it’s eating them from the inside out.
That’s how one drug user described crystal meth – saying it was the worst drug he had ever seen.
Speaking on RTÉ, he said, ”People are only on it a week or two and you can see it in their appearance.
“They’re paranoid 24/7, they think people are after them, looking for things that aren’t there. It’s crazy.
“It’s starting to take a hold and when it does Dublin is going to be ruined because of it.”
Crystal methamphetamine is a powerful synthetic stimulant which is highly addictive. It can be smoked in a glass pipe, injected, snorted or swallowed.
A senior source at the Revenue’s Customs Service told TheJournal.ie that, “There has been a significant increase in the number of investigations into crystal meth traffickers in the past year.”
‘Breaking Bad hits Lucan’
As far back as 2012 experienced drug worker Father Peter McVerry said the drug was readily available in Ballymun, Dublin.
Crystal meth has ravaged whole communities in the US and the same is happening in Ireland.
A spate of crystal meth related crimes in Lucan caused one Councillor to say that Breaking Bad has hit the area.
Fine Gael’s William Lavelle said that gardaí had come across six cases involving people who had taken the drug in the space of just two weeks.
Forget ‘Breaking Bad’… this is a highly dangerous drug and can lead to severe violence by users not to mention the catastrophic health impacts.
‘Making people violent’
Drugs service Coolmine Clinic told TheJournal.ie that while it’s not seeing an increase in the numbers of clients entering with crystal meth addictions – there seems to be a problem with another synthetic drug, very similar to crystal meth in its presentation, called PVP.
Gardai have also arrested several people in recent months for dealing in PVP.
Meanwhile Brother Kevin Crowley from the Capuchin Day Centre said this week that a new drug is making some users at the centre very violent and that extra security had to be brought in recently.
It’s believed that a synthetic substance called MDPV is the cause of the violent behavior.
Director of the Ana Liffey Drug Project Tony Duffin told TheJournal.ie that many people are buying both PVP and MDPV thinking it’s crystal meth.
“The street name for it is ice- people think they’re buying meth but almost certainly it’s not.”
He said that the increase in these types of drugs started happening around September:
This is definitely an issue on the streets of Dublin and around the country but certainly in Dublin- we are dealing with it on a daily basis.
“For the people we work with who use more than one drug- that’s the wider issue – they are the people who have the biggest problems and we need more treatment options for them.”
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Crazy how many people fall out of windows in Russia.
@Seán Ó Briain: The window was shook by earthly tremors outside and leapt into the room and consumed Maganov who then dutifully fell through said window!
FSB agents passing the hospital ward were witnesses to the event! They quickly left the building in borrowed hospital gowns…
@Seán Ó Briain: defenestration – russians are pros at it
@Johnny Honest: beat me to it!
Hmmmm, there are a lot of Russians dying mysteriously these days.
@Declan Moran:
Slip of the tongue likely.
How does anyone live in a terrorist state?
@Genera L Consensus: we’re going to find out.
@Genera L Consensus: there’s been people living in places like the UK, US and Russia for centuries. More recently. UAE and Saudi. Some seem to be doing quite well.
@John Mulligan: #sad
Those Russian windows are lethal / people forever falling out of them.
Putin !
@Martin Lynch: Put out!
In Soviet Russia, elite hospital kills you.
Severe illness of ground speed.
Amazing this story only appears now!
@Con Cussed: why are you amazed? Because its amazing perhaps?
@Con Cussed: even more amazing that a high profile businessman who’s company publicly opposed the illegal invasion of a neighbouring country, is found to have ‘fallen’ from a hospital window. Considering he was sick,its a pretty amazing, and suspicious thing to have happened.
@Dawn Harvey: Agreed. This is a message to all those who would speak out against Putin. Why would someone who is attending hospital to heal themselves ever commit suicide?
How many FSB/GRU agents were in the room at the time of the event?
They’re quite accident-prone, what with the number of poisonings, window leaping, dropped cigarettes and now missiles that don’t take off. Life expectancy is very short in Russia.
The state-controlled TASS news agency cited an unnamed law enforcement source as saying Maganov had committed suicide by jumping from a sixth-story window after being admitted to the hospital for a heart attack. The news site RBK also said police were investigating the possibility of suicide.
Clearly didnt get the memo on time over at Taas News Agency
@Dave Hammond: most unfortunate the CCTV was closed down for maintenance at time of the incident….!
As, the lyrics go “Did he jump or was he pushed” ?
“Fell” Russian for pushed!!!
Did you hear the one about the Russian journalist that died falling from their ground floor apartment… very clumsy those Russians.
@Dave: too much vodka
Not suspicious in the slightest…..
What no piano being installed this time
Fell out a window. Onto some bullets.
@Colm de Cleir: Found some stab wounds too
He fell ill
Oppps….
The Russians will be announcing tomorrow that they have ‘solved’ the cause if this mysterious death
Jesus the Ukrainians are back from Estonia with their window clearing van. The FSB spotted them again but they were able to escape back across the border.
Hmmmm… was the window made of novichok? Was Vlad Puta standing nearby?
It beats drinking tea!
Roger Podacter suffered a similar fate
Running out of ways to die/disappear ! That individual should not have (novo-checkedin) to that Hospital
Terrible to see and worse not surprising. Who will get the blame, is there another mini cooper in the mix or are the Ninga Window Cleaners at it again.
Strange how all of the antiwr people are having “accidents” and even the prowar putin critics are getting blown up.
The one thing they have in common, they are anti putin.
Running out of ways to die/disappear ! That individual should not have (novo-checkedin) to that Hospital
I’ll bet you any money, not unlike the kerry woman, he was ironing the curtains.
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