A drug addict who was admitted to hospital with a large abscess on his buttock died of rapidly advancing sepsis, an inquest at Dublin City Coroner's Court was told yesterday.
Mr Mark Ryan (24), of John's Field Road, Bride Street, Dublin, died in St James's Hospital on May 24th last. He told staff on admission that he was "skin popping" heroin into his buttocks.
The Deputy State Pathologist, Dr Marie Cassidy, said he was one of a group of eight people in Dublin who had died as a result of a batch of contaminated heroin. A number of others also died in Glasgow around the same time.
Mr Ryan was admitted to the hospital on May 21st with an abscess on one buttock but quickly developed a second abscess on the other buttock.
The coroner, Dr Brian Farrell, recorded a verdict of death by misadventure.