# opioids
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This year
2024
cocaine and heroin
Revenue sees 'significant' rise in Irish cocaine seizures while Europe shifts focus in heroin trade
25 Jan
9.3k
Addiction
No heroin found among drugs used in recent overdose clusters in Dublin and Cork, HSE finds
4 Jan
15.4k
0
Addiction
Naloxone will be more widely available after helping save lives in recent overdose cases
3 Jan
12.5k
21
Last year
2023
nitazenes
At least 40 people in Dublin overdose on 'very potent' heroin batch as HSE issues fresh warning
Updated
10 Nov 2023
40.4k
harm reduction
Pilot scheme will see people at risk of opioid overdose given relief medication they can take at home
1 Sep 2023
11.9k
32
All time
opioid crisis
Pharma giant Purdue files for bankruptcy in bid to settle US opioid crisis cases
16 Sep 2019
15.7k
26
opioid crisis
Pharma company that makes painkiller Oxycontin to offer over $10 billion to settle claims in US
27 Aug 2019
23.7k
31
opioids
The rise of opiates: How Ireland's 'broken' health service is behind a surge in prescription painkillers
13 Sep 2018
25.7k
30
Naloxone
Americans urged to carry overdose antidote in effort to tackle drug deaths
5 Apr 2018
18.1k
44
opioids
Singer Tom Petty died of accidental drug overdose, medical examiner says
20 Jan 2018
25.4k
25
painkillers
Two million people are addicted to opioid drugs in US, with 90 dying every day
13 Aug 2017
11.5k
Drug Addiction
There's been a surge in the number of US babies born with heroin withdrawal symptoms
17 Dec 2016
9.6k
22