Cannabis and cocaine the most prominent drugs seized by PSNI
More than 350 seizures of illegal drugs have been carried out by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) in Fermanagh and Omagh in the past…
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More than 350 seizures of illegal drugs have been carried out by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) in Fermanagh and Omagh in the past…
The drug is available pretty much everywhere these days, a support worker says.
Aidan Ormsby of Solace which is based at the Arc Healthy Living Centre in Irvinestown, says the incorrect dose as well as it being mixed with other substances can be deadly.
Some 336 of the 15,758 registered deaths in NI in 2019 were due to alcohol-specific causes. This is more than a third (34.9 per cent) higher than recorded 10 years previously (249), and 18.3 per cent higher than the 2018 total of 284. Aidan Ormsby, a senior manager at Solace Addiction Services at the ARC Healthy Living Centre in Irvinestown said that while the statistics put the figures in black and white, Solace sees that the hazardous and harmful consumption of alcohol across Fermanagh and Omagh is rising through a notable increase in its referral rate and uptake of services. In the...