Former drug addict saves man's life after overdose

Mike Egan administered Naloxone to the dying man. Picture: Eilis Walsh

A Limerick man has described the “terrifying” moment he used Naloxone to save a man from overdosing.

Mike Egan, who is the survivor of a 20-year battle with heroin himself, saved an opiate user from certain death in Limerick city last Friday, after he administered a number of doses of Naloxone to the dying man.