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# Naloxone

This year
2024
HSE forms national 'red alert' team after clusters of drug overdoses in Dublin and Cork
Each HSE region will be asked to form their own localised response teams in case dangerous batches end up on the market in their area.
No heroin found among drugs used in recent overdose clusters in Dublin and Cork, HSE finds
Naloxone will be more widely available after helping save lives in recent overdose cases
Last year
2023
Support service calls for better availability of overdose-reversing drug
All time
Lynn Ruane: The overdose drug Naloxone can save lives so let's remove the barriers to accessing it
HSE offers training in treatment that can reverse drug overdoses
Americans urged to carry overdose antidote in effort to tackle drug deaths
'We've had up to five doses given before someone comes around': How an anti-overdose drug is saving lives
Calls for a heroin 'overdose antidote' to be made more available to addicts' families
'The whole thing took five minutes': Young woman talks about saving the life of a heroin addict
A new heroin overdose drug has saved five lives under a HSE pilot programme
Plans for new supervised drug injecting centre in Dublin