Edinburgh taxi drivers offered chance to carry life-saving drug Naloxone

The drug temporarily reverses the effects of an opioid overdose.

Edinburgh’s taxi drivers are being offered the chance to carry the life-saving drug Naloxone, which temporarily reverses the effects of an opioid overdose.

The initiative, by the Scottish Ambulance Service, is part of a wider campaign which seeks to reduce stigma and raise public awareness of how to recognise – and intervene – when someone has a drug overdose. Vanessa Kennedy reports.

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