Dawn Russell

And there's great harm reduction messaging out there about taking half or going slower or hydrating.

But that doesn't mean you are safe.

At the end of the day, you're taking on a substance that has been made in some illicit factory somewhere or in somebody's house and cut with multiple impurities on the street.

And that's going into your body.

And I feel very sad for some of the young people we work with as well, because they have such commitment to fitness and they eat well.

And there's a lot of vegan diets and not taking alcohol, as you said, Claire, and exercising.

But then there are these literal poisons being put into their body, which they can't know what is in them.

Yes, and there's a substance circulating at the moment, the HSE put out an alert about pink cocaine, which is literally pink powder.

But the HSE have found through testing that there's actually no cocaine in that substance.

Synthetic drugs are a large trend now that the HSE are monitoring.

So these man-made drugs in labs that have no link back to any plant-based substances.

elements.

And the pink cocaine that's circulating doesn't have cocaine at all in it.

So you're dealing with high risk unknowns of new synthetic substances that even, you know, an ambulance crew who are attending you would struggle to treat very quickly because they're a complete unknown.