At least one person dies each day in Ireland from overdosing on drugs.
No city, town or village is safe from the poison that’s being sold on our street’s.
For many kicking the habit is all too difficult and they end up paying the ultimate price.
Tomorrow Saturday is International Overdose Awareness Day and a series of event’s are planned in a bid to create awareness and to save lives.
The HSE National Ambulance Services (NAS) and local Community First Responder volunteers are hosting CPR and intranasal naloxone demonstrations this Saturday � International Overdose Awareness Day 2024.
Naloxone is a medication used to temporarily reverse the effects of opioid drugs (for example; heroin, morphine, codeine, methadone and nitazenes). If someone experiences an overdose, naloxone can help to keep a person alive until an ambulance arrives. In 2023, naloxone was administered on 461 occasions.
Demonstration locations are:Drogheda: 10am – 4pm at Scotch Hall Shopping Centre
Dublin: 10am – 12pm and 2pm – 4pm at Donaghmeade Shopping Centre.
10am – 6pm at Jervis Shopping Centre.
11am – 3pm at The Square Shopping Centre, Tallaght.
Carlow: 2pm-5pm at Fairview Shopping Centre.
Cork: 12pm – 4pm on Patrick Street, Cork City
International Overdose Awareness Day is a time for communities throughout Ireland to remember those who have died as a result of drug overdose and to raise awareness of preventative measures. The campaign #TogetherWeCan raises awareness of the issue of overdose and promotes action and discussion about evidence-based overdose prevention.
Colm Burke, Minister for Public Health, Wellbeing and the National Drugs Strategy, said: �I want to acknowledge the grief felt by families and communities. These tragic deaths could have been prevented. Getting more people with problematic drug use into treatment is a key step in reducing the risk of drug overdose.
The day billed as Together We Can is a chance for everyone to say enough is enough.
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