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The UK's first legal drug consumption room
The UK's first legal drug consumption room opens in Glasgow today, following a decade-long legal battle between the city's council and Westminster.
UK's first drug consumption room officially opens in Glasgow
It is hoped The Thistle - based in Glasgow's east end - will help addicts access wider support to improve their lives, as well as reduce the risk of blood-borne viruses such as HIV.
The UK’s first drug consumption room has opened in Scotland
The £2.3 million facility, named Thistle, opened its doors today (January 13) and is intended to tackle Scotland’s high rates of drug-related deaths. With 1,172 counted in 2023, the country is Europe’s drug death capital.
Drug consumption room ‘significant step forward’ in tackling deaths – Swinney
The opening of the UK’s first safer drugs consumption room will be a “significant step forward” in efforts to tackle Scotland’s drug problem, John Swinney has said. The First Minister was speaking as he toured the Thistle Centre in Glasgow’s east end, which is due to open on Monday.
Scots leader hails opening of UK's first drug consumption facility
Scotland's leader John Swinney hailed Friday the opening next week of Britain's first official consumption room for illegal drugs, after a years-long battle with the UK government over the issue.Conservative ministers in Westminster,
Drug consumption room set to open in Glasgow to help drugs epidemic in Scotland
Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney says he believes the drug consumption room will help to "reduce drug deaths in Scotland".
In context: Glasgow's safer drug consumption room
In 2023, Holyrood visited the Danish facility H17, the world’s biggest drug consumption room. With an intake of between 500 to 600 people a day, Copenhagen’s social mayor Karina Vestergård Madsen told the magazine there had been “not a single death when drug use took place in a drug consumption room”.
UK's first drug consumption room opens Glasgow doors
The UK’s first legal drugs consumption room has opened its doors in Glasgow today. Named The Thistle Centre, the space is designed to provide drug users with a safe place to take substances like heroin and cocaine under medical supervision in a clean and hygienic environment.
Britain’s First Supervised Drug Use Room Is Set to Open in Glasgow
Scotland, which has the highest rate of recorded drugs deaths in Europe, is opening a new facility for users to inject illegal drugs under medical supervision.
John Swinney visits UK's first drug consumption room in Glasgow
John Swinney visited The Thistle drug consumption room in Glasgow, set to open on Monday as the UK's first facility allowing drug use without arrest, aiming to provide support and reduce virus risks.
This is what UK's first drugs consumption room looks like
The UK’s first safer drugs consumption room will open in Scotland in an effort to tackle the country’s major drugs problem. The Thistle Centre, in Glasgow’s east end, will allow addicts to take drugs – including heroin – under supervision in a clean and hygienic environment,
It is morally wrong not to open safer drug consumption room, says councillor
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Inside the UK's first legal drug consumption room
Welcome to the Thistle - the UK's first and only drug consumption room. After nearly a decade of deadlock and wrangling over ...