"(This) will allow us to reach people who are currently isolated and vulnerable, offering them vital healthcare and treatment options."

Opiate users and their families are being offered training on the dangers of an overdose - and how to stop one.

Merchants Quay Ireland, one of the country's leading drug treatment centres has accused the Government of not spending enough money on the treatment of addicts.

Gardaí in Dublin are trying to identify a man whose body was found on Merchant's Quay on Friday.

Ireland has had one of the highest heroin-related death rates over the past decade, according to the Merchant's Quay drugs unit.