Libraries and leisure centres across Midlothian will be provided with antidote kits to deal with heroin overdoses as a drugs project expands.
Staff in public buildings at the heart of communities will be able to train to administer Naloxone - a drug which counteracts the effects of opiates in an emergency.
The move is the latest roll-out of the drug overdose kit which is already available through the third sector to families of addicts who are at risk of taking a fatal dose. And it will ensure help is at hand for anyone who collapses in the community.
