A 39-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested by police on suspicion of supplying controlled drugs after a man was taken to hospital with a suspected drugs overdose.

A 45-year-old man was taken to Furness General Hospital last night after an incident at a property in Manchester Street, Barrow, at 5:30pm last night.

He has since been discharged from hospital.

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