Dr. Eamon Keenan:

The people who are engaged are service providers. We are actively targeting homeless service providers, so people who are working in private emergency accommodation, PEA, in hostels and in front-line services are accessing that. One thing we are doing in relation to naloxone is that we are training peers around how to identify an overdose. At this stage, we have 128 peers right across the country trained in the circle programme. These are the people who will come across overdoses and see people, so that is a big initiative. It is called the circle programme. Peers, front-line service providers and people working in hostels as well as family members can be trained in provision of naloxone. If somebody gets naloxone home and they overdose, they are not going to necessarily give it to themselves. Their family members need to be trained.