A 16-year-old girl was rushed to hospital last month after taking cocaine and fentanyl. The girl’s background was disruptive and dysfunctional: her mother had been sent to prison and the girl fell in with a bad crowd, resulting in the abuse of drink and drugs. Social services believed she was being sexually exploited by different adult men. She entered state care after gardaí found her in the home of a known sex offender, but she was going missing from her residential placement nearly every day.