OFFICIALS behind Scotland’s first safe consumption room in Glasgow are hopeful that the project can act as a springboard to help similar…
OFFICIALS behind Scotland’s first safe consumption room in Glasgow are hopeful that the project can act as a springboard to help similar facilities develop across the country.for Hunter Street in Glasgow’s east end has now been given the green lightIt comes after the Scottish Government's top lawyer Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain said it would not be"in the public interest" to prosecute people using such a facility.
“We know it takes quite a bit of time to develop a staff group. This is a really high-stakes job so we’ll be recruiting staff but then working with them as a staff team to support them. Speaking after the announcement, the Scottish Conservatives’ health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane said his party have “serious reservations about how effective drug consumption rooms will be in reality”.
“After they’ve injected, we can help them to meet with people and offer them opportunities to engage with a range of other services whether its housing, welfare rights or sexual health.”When it was put to Millar that people knowing they had a space to use drugs would only encourage them to inject more often, she said evidence pointed towards the opposite.
Millar further pointed to the benefits which could be seen in communities, specifically in terms of there being less drug litter.
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