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Mark McGivern

Hundred overdose victims saved by Naloxone nasal spray treatment, police say

Scots cops may have saved the lives of exactly 100 people after intervening in overdoses.

The claim arises after the opiate reversal drug Naloxone was used on 104 people, with 100 of them appearing to be on the brink of death.

The results are now being claimed a triumph, despite the Police Federation, which represents officers, refusing to support the rollout of kits in 2019, claiming it was placed inappropriate stresses on officers.

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