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Britain’s First Drug Consumption Room Is Set to Open in Glasgow
Scotland, which has the highest rate of recorded drugs deaths in Europe, is launching a new facility for users to inject illegal drugs under medical supervision.
John Swinney hopes Glasgow drug consumption room will reduce ‘entirely unacceptable’ drug deaths
Glasgow's new safer drug consumption room is a UK first. First Minister John Swinney said he hopes it will help reduce the “entirely unacceptable” level of drug deaths in Scotland
John Swinney visits UK's first drug consumption room in Glasgow
John Swinney visited The Thistle drug consumption room in Glasgow, set to open on Monday as the UK's first facility allowing drug use without arrest, aiming to provide support and reduce virus risks.
Glasgow's radical approach to drug epidemic as first injecting room set to open
Sky News got first access to the facility in Glasgow to see how it will work. It has been 10 years in the making – but will it reduce drug deaths?
UK’s first drug consumption room opens in Glasgow next week
The first look into Glasgow's first drug consumption room offering an array of services for those battling addiction.
Inside the UK's first legal drug consumption room
Welcome to the Thistle - the UK's first and only drug consumption room. After nearly a decade of deadlock and wrangling over drug laws the centre is finally ready to open. On Monday it will welcome its first clients who will come in to inject illegally-bought heroin or cocaine under medical supervision.
Scots leader hails opening of UK's first drug consumption facility
Scotland's leader John Swinney hailed Friday the opening next week of Britain's first official consumption room for illegal drugs, after a years-long battle with the UK government over the issue.Conservative ministers in Westminster,
Drug room to finally open in Glasgow but more services are needed
It has been more than 10 years in the making but Glasgow’s Safer Drug Consumption Facility will finally open on Monday. The centre to be called The Thistle, will open its doors in Hunter Street in the East End at 9am for the first people to come in and take their own drugs under supervision.
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