Eleven men treated in hospital after overdosing on Tuesday have since been discharged and returned to custody
An investigation into the source of the drugs, and how they were smuggled into the maximum security Portlaoise Prison, is being carried out by An Garda Síochána. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
While there was serious concern for the health of one man, who remained in intensive care at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Portlaoise until Wednesday night, he was discharged on Thursday afternoon. He was the last of the men to be returned to the prison, where the conditions of those affected are to be monitored.
Some prisoners who are taken from jails for hospital or court appointments, or who are granted short periods of release for compassionate reasons, often find ways to take receipt of drugs to bring back into the prison setting. A quantity of the drug the men are believed to have consumed before they fell ill on Tuesday was found in the jail and has been sent for testing. Gardaí suspect it contained a quantity of highly potent synthetic opioids, bringing about overdose symptoms in the group of men very soon after they consumed it.
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