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A KEY meeting to determine how the UK’s first safe drug consumption room could be trialled in Glasgow will go ahead before the end of this month,…

A KEY meeting to determine how the UK’s first safe drug consumption room could be trialled in Glasgow will go ahead before the end of this month, the Sunday National can reveal.

The consumption room will also need to provide people with safe and clean equipment like pipes and needles with which to take drugs as well as medical staff to supervise users in case of overdoses.

Announcing her official position on operating a drug consumption room in Glasgow, Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain relied heavily on the public health arguments for creating such facilities.

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