UK, drug consumption and Glasgow City Council

It is morally wrong not to open safer drug consumption room, says councillor
It would be morally wrong not to open the UK’s first safer drug-consumption room in Glasgow, a councillor has said. Allan Casey, who convenes Glasgow City Council’s addiction services, welcomed the official opening of the facility on Monday.
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.
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”.
Drug consumption room opens in Glasgow amid drug epidemic in Scotland
Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney says he believes the drug consumption room will help to "reduce drug deaths in Scotland".
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.
Drug consumption room ‘significant step forward’ in tackling deaths – Swinney
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Inside the UK's first legal drug consumption room
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