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Fri 02 Feb 2010Increase in head shop users seeking help
A DUBLIN psychiatrist has said there is a “marked and definite” increase in the numbers of young people presenting with problems at his clinic after using head shop products.
Dr Bobby Smyth, consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Health Service Executive Youth Drug and Alcohol service in Tallaght said numbers presenting there with head shop related problems had increased from 1 per cent of his patients in 2008 to 7 per cent in 2009.
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