google-site-verification: googlec7193c3de77668c9.html

Inside the UK’s first legal drug consumption room

Advertisements

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.

The Thistle is based in Glasgow’s east end, where there is a high population of users who take drugs in public.

Funded by the Scottish government, its aim is to reduce overdoses and drug-related harm as well as making drug use less visible to the community.

Video by Frankie Allan


BBC News

Views: 0

See also  NHS Grampian apologises for patient's 15-month hip operation wait

Check Also

Scots backpacker stuck 'in limbo' in Thailand over mobile phone 'mistake'

Rory McColl had his passport confiscated after what he claims was a mix-up and faces …

0a592940 319c 11f0 96c3 cf669419a2b0.jpg

Woman charged over anti-abortion protest has case dropped

Rose Docherty was arrested twice for protesting near a Glasgow abortion clinic in breach of …

Ex Hertfordshire police officer jailed over child sex offences

He added: “The fact that he was a Scout leader and, shockingly, a police officer …

Leave a Reply

Available for Amazon Prime
Our free link building tool gives you instant access to contextual links from thousands of websites worldwide.