The Syringe Analysis Pilot Project 2022 has identified a re-emergance of injecting cocaine, as well as the arrival of 3-Methylmethcathinone (3-MMC).

The Syrienge Analysis Pilot Project involves a collaboration between a laboratory and community services to analyse the current drug situation in Ireland and to inform health-led responses.

The pilot uses syrienge analysis to obtain information through the analysis of the content of used syrienges to help identify drug trends. The project obtained 155 used syrienges in order to conduct their research.

The significant re-emergance of injecting cociane was reported as being 86.5% in Dublin, and 89.1% in Midlands.

3-MMC was found to be present in 11.3% of Dublin syringes and 23.6% of Midlands ones. 3-MMC was only one of 32 different drugs and metabolites found in the syrienges tested in this pilot.