‘They won’t have to hide or be judged’ – inside Ireland’s first supervised drug injection centre
In the basement of the Merchants Quay Ireland (MQI) building on Dublin city’s south quays, the country’s health-led approach to drug use is about to take a significant step. The opening of an injection centre there has been subject to objections and public scrutiny, a project so long in the making it has been on the agenda of the past three CEOs of MQI. Former taoiseach Leo Varadkar was the health minister when it was first proposed in 2015. The medically supervised injection facility (MSIF) is finally set to open in the coming days. What started as an empty downstairs area of the building is now a clean, modern facility where people can inject drugs safely under medical supervision. It will be the first of its kind in Ireland or the UK. Credit to : Irish Independent