Call for provision of naloxone to help opioid addicts

Oxycodone is the generic name for a range of opioid painkilling tablets. Naxolone is used to rapidly reverse the effects of an overdose of opioid drugs including heroin and methadone.

A drug to treat people who have overdosed on opioids has been administered almost 90 times since the start of this year.

The Health Service Executive says that there have been 89 administrations of naloxone reported to the executive since the start of this year across the country.