METRO FREE Tuesday, August 4, 2009 HELP METRO HELP THE ENVIRONMENT. RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER TODAY INSIDE TODAY For details: See Page 11 See Brad Pitts new movie first and free with your Metro See Page 8 Sienna: Dont knock me for being excitable PLUS Whats on TV tonight Pages 14-15 SWANNING AROUNDSee Page 3 The Spikes stole the show on the Metro Main Stage at the Castle Palooza festival over the weekend. They were one of several acts at the Charleville Castle in Tullamore See Page 6 PHARMACISTS have warned of carnage in Dublin today as more than 1,500 addicts de- scend on their last remaining methadone supply. John Corr, chairman of the Irish Pharmacy Unions Pharmacy Con- tractors Committee, accused the HSE of putting public order at risk by re- routing several hundred unstable addicts to a single point. As the pharmacist funding row con- tinues, he said all the clinics that dis- pensed methadone a synthetic drug given to heroin addicts have ceased except one:Amiens Street City Clinic. Of Irelands 5,000 methadone pa- tients, 1,500 are in North Dublin. The clinic had 500 patients assigned to it. It is already bursting at the seams, said Mr Corr. Now they are going to cram another 1,000 patients into that confined space... that is a rec- ipe for carnage. There is likely to be a crimewave, fairly swiftly. Im worried there will be physical harm, be it self harm, or harm to each other, or harm to other people. Were talking chaos here. I am hugely concerned on health and safety grounds for them as individu- als, and for public disorder. You are guaranteeing an incendiary situation. It has massive public disor- der potential, he added. There are ways to save money, and there are ways to be completely stupid. The HSE said the methadone scheme was separate from the State drug schemes and would not be af- fected by the pullout. Pharmacies have not been withdrawing en masse, it said, adding that a very small number had signalled their intention to cease dispensing methadone. BY ROSS McDONAGH Carnage on citys streets As clinics stop methadone supply, pharmacists warn of: index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html