International Overdose Awareness Day 2025
To mark International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD) 2025, The HSE National Social Inclusion Office are hosting a free live webinar on Friday 29th August from 11:00 - 12:30
Register for the online webinar HERE
As part of the world’s annual campaign to raise awareness of drug-related overdose, we invite you to join us at our event to help end overdose, remember those who have died without stigma and acknowledge the grief experienced by family and friends left behind.
The sub theme for the 2025 event is, “Community, driven by hope”.
Overdose doesn’t just shatter a family, it fractures a community.
We are one community – not just because we share the pain of loss, but because we share the power to change what comes next.
About the event
Dr Denis O’Driscoll, independent chair of the National Naloxone Oversight Quality Assurance Group, is hosting the event and will be joined by:
- Prof Eamon Keenan, HSE National Clinical Lead, Addiction Services
- Andy O’Hara, Coordinator, UISCE
- Eddie Mullins, CEO MQI
- Dr Des Crowley, GP Coordinator for HSE CHO9 and Dan Iacobs, UISCE
- Danielle Tormey, ALDP and Yasmin Woods, Cuan Dara (Inpatient Addiction Treatment Centre)
- Aoife Smart, Head of Residential Addiction Services, PMVT
- Dr David Joyce, Acting Executive Clinical Lead, Irish Prison Service.
Share your IOAD message on social media, using the #EndOverdoseIRL, #IOAD2025 and #CommunityDrivenByHope and follow & tag @drugsdotie, @HSELive and @HSE_SI
Overdose resources
IOAD2025 posters and naloxone resources are shared by the HSE National Social Inclusion Office to services nationally, to enable awareness raising at a local level. IOAD2025 posters can also be downloaded and printed from here
- Get harm reduction advice for people who use heroin here
- Get information about the Naloxone Programme here
- Download an overdose rescue plan to use as part of interventions with people at risk here
- Get harm reduction information for different types of drugs here
- Get information about drug emergencies here
- Find drug warnings and alerts from the HSE here
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