From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story.

In a classroom in North Yorkshire, a group of trainee police officers are settling down for their next lesson.

The purpose of these kits is to buy you time. It's ultimately to give that person the chance

to breathe until the ambulance arrives. Moments earlier the atmosphere was different.

Recruits taking the Mick out of one trainee's distinctive manbon. But now they're silent, taking it in.

It's not about you becoming a paramedic, okay?

It's about you having something,

because your choice is that you either watch somebody

unconscious and not breathing die in front of you,

or you can give them this medicine,

which will restart their breathing and

allow the ambulance to arrive and take over their care.

They've been shown how to use naloxone, a drug which can end the effect of an opioid

like heroin, essentially halting an overdose and maybe saving a life.

So within your kit you will get two of these,

often described by your dad as a nasal, like a Vicks nasal spray.

You hold it with two fingers on the top, thumb underneath,

you know, tilt that person's head back slightly,

just to give clear access to the nostrils.

For police officers about to take to the cobbled streets of York and Harrogate, this

might all seem a bit extreme.

But the instructor explains, drug-related deaths across the UK are the worst since records

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