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Tue 08 Aug 2008Concern over use of legal party drug
A SENIOR consultant in emergency medicine has expressed serious concern at the appearance on the youth scene in Ireland of an ecstasy-like party drug which is legal here but has been banned in a number of other countries because of its psychotic effects.
Dr Chris Luke, an AE consultant at Cork University Hospital and the Mercy University Hospital (MUH) in Cork, said three young men had to be hospitalised at MUH last month after presenting with a severe reaction to benzylpiperazine.
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