 Ireland
Sick Heroin Addict Wins Bid For Review Of Jail Service
A CHRONIC heroin addict whose health is deteriorating was granted leave by the High Court to issue judicial review proceedings against the country's prison service.
The 32-year-old man, who has lost two brothers to heroin and whose sister is also an addict, has claimed he is being subjected to "cruel and unusual punishment" as a result of the failure to place him on a drug treatment and rehabilitation programme while in prison.
A chronic addict since 1990, he says he is continuing to use heroin regularly and has shared needles with other prisoners. As a result he has health problems, often vomiting blood, his body is covered with needle marks and cuts and he is losing the sight of one eye.
He applied on three occasions for a place on a drug treatment programme in Mountjoy jail but was refused each time, claims the man, who is...
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Thailand
Anti-Drug Efforts Get Boost
Four Countries To Step Up Co-operation
Four countries in the Mekong sub-region will co-operate more in their fight against drug trafficking along the Mekong river, a seminar was told.
Some 50 representatives from Burma, China, Laos, and Thailand joined a workshop on drug suppression in the Golden Triangle area, held at a Chiang Rai hotel yesterday.
Narcotics Control Board deputy secretary-general Chartchai Suthiklom said it was agreed the four Mekong countries would step up their collaboration in combatting drugs and exchanging information on drug trafficking and trading in border areas.
Thailand's fierce drug suppression in the North has forced drug gangs to switch to smuggling routes in Tak and along the Mekong river opposite Chiang Rai since the liberalisation of water transport in the region, he said.
More drug production bases along the border have been converted into makeshift factories with the ...
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