By Craig Evry

A MAN was rushed to hospital suffering from a suspected drug overdose after emergency services were alerted to an incident on a Warminster estate.

Police and paramedics attended the address in Portway Lane last Wednesday evening and treated a 36-year-old man at the scene.

He was taken by ambulance to the Royal United Hospital in Bath but was later released.

Police also launched a search of the premises in Portway Lane. The man was arrested on suspicion of possessing heroin but released on police bail.

The incident comes just three months after a Warminster man had to be airlifted to the RUH in Bath, after being found unconscious outside a block of flats on the same estate.

At the time, people living on the estate were threatening vigilante action against drug-users, with one dealer being referred to as Mr Black Death, after he was suspected by residents of supplying cocaine and heroin.

However, police have stressed there is not a big problem on the estate and say that by working with the community the problem can be cracked.

Insp Geoffrey Miles said that children are not at danger from syringes in the streets and there is no threat of them being supplied drugs.

He said: "Any discovery of heroin is a concern as it is a class A drug."

Insp Miles stressed that drugs were not being offered to children on the estate.

He said: "There are no needles on the street. If the users came on to the street then they would be easier to catch."

"We really want to use the community to help us catch these drug users. It is positive work and we are getting results."

The issue of drugs in the community was one which Insp Miles highlighted as one to be cracked down on when he joined Warminster police last month.