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# overdose

This year
2024
Naloxone will be more widely available after helping save lives in recent overdose cases
3 Jan
12.5k
21
Last year
2023
The Explainer: What caused dozens of overdoses in Dublin recently?
17 Nov 2023
3.8k
All time
Report highlights increase in deaths involving street tablets in Ireland
28 Apr 2020
15.5k
0
Three charged with providing drugs that killed rapper Mac Miller
3 Oct 2019
15.6k
Lynn Ruane: The overdose drug Naloxone can save lives so let's remove the barriers to accessing it
Lynn Ruane
14 Apr 2019
23.1k
44
'We've been to too many funerals': Study shows one third of homeless deaths linked to drugs or alcohol
1 Feb 2019
9.0k
16
How one drug can make sex euphoric, but also destroy lives
12 Sep 2018
128k
65
HSE offers training in treatment that can reverse drug overdoses
31 Aug 2018
10.2k
29
Prince's family to sue doctor over 'failing to treat opioid addiction'
25 Aug 2018
11.7k
11
Man arrested after 46 people overdose at park in Connecticut
16 Aug 2018
26.5k
31
'I now need time to heal': Demi Lovato speaks out for first time since hospitalisation
6 Aug 2018
29.2k
25
Demi Lovato rushed to hospital following suspected heroin overdose
24 Jul 2018
63.8k
51
Prince toxicology report shows very high level of fentanyl drug, experts say
27 Mar 2018
26.4k
19
Singer Tom Petty died of accidental drug overdose, medical examiner says
20 Jan 2018
25.4k
25
Calls for a heroin 'overdose antidote' to be made more available to addicts' families
25 Jul 2017
8.5k
20
Suicide, overdose, sudden infant death: Children who died while in contact with social services
11 May 2017
7.7k
9
'The whole thing took five minutes': Young woman talks about saving the life of a heroin addict
1 Sep 2016
19.2k
38
Counterfeit pills found at Prince's estate contained drug 50 times more powerful than heroin
22 Aug 2016
17.9k
18
Cork house party shows the 'don't take drugs' message just won't cut it
Graham de Barra
22 Jan 2016
622
44
Mother tells inquest that son who overdosed 'should never have been let out of hospital'
17 Sep 2015
34.8k
40
"The stereotype of overdose is a person with a needle in their arm"
31 Aug 2015
13.8k
24
Watch: Man who took heroin overdose gets aggressive with Cork paramedics
16 Apr 2015
25.2k
44
These emergency drugs may be more easily available after death of 14-year-old girl
20 Feb 2015
19.9k
38
Man aged in his 50s dies of suspected drug overdose
30 Dec 2014
15.4k
27
'Drug that reverses heroin overdoses should be made more available'
2 Dec 2014
8.3k
49
Calls for supervised injecting centres as 'far more people die from overdose than on Irish roads'
31 Aug 2014
10.6k
77
Peaches' death was "tragic parallel" of her mother's overdose
1 May 2014
33.5k
71
Column: Philip Seymour Hoffman's death challenges our cosy stereotypes about addicts
Tony Duffin
5 Feb 2014
355
129
Fifty bags of heroin found in Philip Seymour Hoffman's apartment
4 Feb 2014
22.4k
71
How more people died on methadone than heroin in Ireland
27 Jan 2014
18.0k
78
One person dies from a drug overdose every day in Ireland
22 Jan 2014
21.7k
149
Glee actor Cory Monteith died from heroin and alcohol overdose
16 Jul 2013
31.6k
143
New Amy Winehouse inquest to be held next month
18 Dec 2012
4.4k
17
Post-mortems due on two dead after suspected 'potent' heroin in Cork
6 Oct 2012
5.2k
33
Three die from overdoses including one who collapsed at Phoenix Park gig
8 Jul 2012
94.6k
230
Conrad Murray sentenced to four years imprisonment over Michael Jackson death
29 Nov 2011
3.0k
15
Ireland has third-highest rate of drug deaths in Europe
16 Nov 2011
11.0k
29