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HEROIN USERS ARE to be supplied with an antidote drug called naloxone which provides almost immediate countermeasures.
The project will see around 600 patients receiving naloxone on a prescription to take home.
Those most at risk of overdosing are expected to receive the drug by the middle of next month.
The HSE says training sessions are currently underway with heroin addicts and their family members.
It’s part of the HSE’s Drug and Alcohol Services’s Social Inclusion Operational Plan.
The programme will then be evaluated to assess if the drug is suitable for mainstream distribution.
The HSE says it is in the process of engaging with a consultant to evaluate the programme.
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Could they not provide any description of the suspects? This report is incredibly light on details especially given it is an “exclusive”.
@Steve Lennon: some taxi driver probably gave him the ‘exclusive’ in the cab that he got to work
@JimmyMc: it is quite stunning that a crime can be committed at this close quarters and no description given. Either that or the journalist has omitted such pertinent details.
@Steve Lennon: ‘news for the dumb’. Most people are here for the laugh in the comments
@Steve Lennon: it’s because they are black.
@james cullen: I can’t see any other reason why the journalist would cover up the description other than he is a PC journo looking to protect a non-national.
@james cullen: spot on was looking for the description in the article ‘ journal these men are criminals and the public wants to know their description what were they wearing what were their accents what is their ethnic group
So journal do your job properly and report the news as it is
@Steve Lennon: i thought all taxis had cameras no??
The new Irish ?
Advised to avoid picking up or dropping off in the area???
Collective punishment because of the recalcitrant behaviour of a tiny minority!
By who?
And if these two move to O’Connell St and Stephens Green should we shutdown the Taxi industry?
Plenty of cameras around Gardiner Street and several around Clonee area, should the Garda not concentrate on identifying and arresting the culprits?
@Jarlath Murphy: first three words of the article will answer your last question
@Jarlath Murphy: Taxi drivers with any sense will stop picking up young men of a certain ethnicity behind this spate of crime – and then be identified and vilified in the media as being racist. No wonder people are so fed up and angry with all this.
@Paul: And while they investigate should the Taxi industry shut?
@Jarlath Murphy: “should the Garda not concentrate on identifying and arresting the culprits?”
And what evidence or reason do you have for thinking they aren’t doing so?
I guarantee the gardai know the cameras better than you do.
Now, do you realise that the journalist that wrote this article is not the investigating garda? Yes or no
It’s been going on a few months now. There is a gang of BLACK Teenagers doing it.
@Nicky Ryan (allegedly a journalist): are the suspects black? Why no description provided?
@Steve Lennon: cause the journal “journalists” have no liathroidi.
Dirtbags.
BLACKS. These two people were BLACK. The main part of the description. So the article should advise the taxi drivers to stop picking up young BLACKS.
Joxer Brown ~ of course not ! Most black people in Ireland are decent and hardworking, but unfortunately like all races, colours, creeds, there is an underbelly of thugs and gangs and if you lived in certain areas you would know ! or if you get taxis you would know , it is good journalism to say they were Black, just as it would have been to say they wore blue Nike runners, had Dublin accents, were 5ft 7′ with thick country accents , this is how people are caught, get real.
‘Exclusive’ it’s reported on other sites – get a grip journal
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