A controversial clinic in Glasgow uses taxpayer money to provide heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) to addicts. The service, which costs nearly £6 million, includes transportation via taxis, raising concerns about the allocation of funds.
Thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money has been spent on hiring taxis to take drug addicts to an NHS clinic to be injected with ‘free’ heroin. Addicts with ‘chaotic’ lifestyles are picked up and ferried to the controversial clinic, where they are given the Class A drug. The Mail can reveal the cost of the heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) facility has soared to nearly £6million - or £102,170 per patient.
The latest figures come after it emerged the UK’s first clinic where addicts can legally take their own heroin and cocaine is to open in Glasgow next week. They also come amid a row over Scotland’s drug death rate, the highest in Europe, despite the SNP’s ‘national mission’ to tackle the problem. Last night campaigner Annemarie Ward, of human rights advocacy service FAVOR UK, said: ‘Some £5.6million has been allocated to the HAT service in Glasgow including cash spent on taxi transport - while only just over £1million is allocated for actual rehabilitation beds across the city. ‘This stark disparity highlights the underfunding of services designed to help individuals achieve long-term recovery.’ The Mail has been told that some patients have been picked up from pubs or other locations rather than their own homes to be taken to the heroin clinic in Glasgow. The service in Glasgow treats patients with pharmaceutical grade heroin The centre is ‘aimed at people with the most chaotic lifestyles and severe addictions who have not responded to existing treatments’. Pharmaceutical-grade heroin is given to addicts at the Enhanced Drug Treatment Service (EDTS) under medical supervision in a bid to stop them using street heroin, which may contain deadly impuritie
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