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Daniel Keane

Delivering opioid overdose treatment kits by drone could help reduce drug deaths

Delivering opioid overdose reversal kits by drone could help stem drug-related deaths in the UK, a study has found.

Researchers from King’s College London (KCL) found that drones could reach 78 per cent of fatal opioid overdoses within seven minutes – a massive increase on the 14 per cent reached by ambulances.

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