Gardaí may be given heroin antidote to save lives

Of the 376 fatal overdoses in 2017, 95 involved methadone and 77 involved heroin.

Frontline gardaí could be given medication to reverse heroin and methadone overdoses, cutting user deaths, under measures being examined by Garda HQ.

The HSE said it hoped the provision of naloxone and the necessary training of gardaí could be progressed.