A generation of people born in the 1960s and 1970s, known as Generation X, are dying from suicide or drug poisoning in greater numbers than ever. ONS data for England and Wales has shown that in the late 1980s to early 1990s, the age at which most people died by taking their own lives or drug poisoning was concentrated around this generation, when they were in their 20s.

Release surveyed each of the 152 local authority areas in England, as local authorities are responsible for commissioning drug services, which give out take-home naloxone. The report includes findings on the availability of take-home naloxone across local authority areas, the scale of take-home naloxone supply in community settings, and coverage among people who use opiates and opiate clients in drug treatment.

A safe drugs initiative that started with a mobile van has expanded with a new tent after police opted to turn a blind eye. Activist Peter Krykant raised cash for tents, manned by ­volunteers, after his converted minibus was used by scores of injecting heroin and cocaine users in Glasgow city centre. It was equipped with seats and tables, with sterile injecting equipment, a ­defibrillator and naloxone, which reverses the effects of heroin overdoses.