OFFICIALS behind Scotland’s first safe consumption room in Glasgow are hopeful that the project can act as a springboard to help similar…
“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.
“We’re looking at the summer in terms of opening our doors. But we are committed to opening it as soon as we possibly can so those time frames may shift particularly as the building works become clear”, she explained.Not everybody agrees that safe consumption routes are the way forward to solve drug deaths in Scotland.
“But crucially they’ll be able to go through to an injecting area where they can inject the drugs in a very clean and hygienic environment under the supervision of trained staff. She explained: “The work we’ve done over the last six years is based on significant international evidence. Millar further pointed to the benefits which could be seen in communities, specifically in terms of there being less drug litter.
“This remains the only one we’ve been unable to implement so we see the drug consumption facility as the final piece in that jigsaw.”
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