Leading clinicians in child addiction have voiced alarm that vapes containing a cannabis-like substance are still on sale in Ireland, more than a year after doctors first raised their concerns.
Professor Bobby Smyth, consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist with the HSE addiction services, said HHC — a semi-synthetic cannabinoid with an effect similar to THC in cannabis — is now involved in a quarter of cases involving substance use among adolescents.
Professor Smyth spoke to us this morning on The Agenda to tell us more about this.
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