'Our city deserves better, and its people deserve more,' PaulJSweeney ✍
Many of us will have priorities to focus our minds, alongside goals and ambitions that we hope to fulfil over the course of the next twelve months and beyond. Whether personally or professionally, we all seek to make 2023 a better year than those that have preceded it.
My proposed bill would see facilities called Overdose Prevention Centres introduced in Scotland, adding another tool to the existing arsenal at the disposal of the Scottish Government. I have seen first-hand the difference Overdose Prevention Centres can make. For almost a year, I volunteered alongside others at Scotland’s first unofficial Overdose Prevention Centre run by my friend Peter Krykant, before, in Glasgow’s Trongate.
Problematic drug use is a symptom of poverty and destitution, and it is of grave concern to me that at a time where poverty is rife there has been very little movement to address the drugs death crisis in Scotland. In the public sector we have seen trade unions representing nurses, ambulance drivers, paramedics, teachers, cleansing workers and railway workers ballot their members for industrial action. Some strikes have been avoided, but for many low paid workers they have been left with no choice but to withdraw their labour.
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