Health bosses have today approved plans to proceed with a safer drug consumption room in Glasgow.
The city’s Integrated Joint Board which oversees health and social care agreed unanimously to move forward to staffing and equipping the facility to allow it to open.
The funding will begin from April next year and councillors and health officials are keen for the service to be open as soon as is possible.Susanne Millar HSCP chief officer said it is estimated there are around 400 to 500 people who are injecting drugs in public in the city.and NHS services to help people who use drugs.
Also, it is hoped they will be more likely to seek access to other services to help them reduce or stop taking drugs.Ms Millar, however, said that the evidence from other cities around theSimilarly fears that people from other towns and cities would come to Glasgow to take drugs, free from the fear of prosecution were allayed.
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