Items tagged with drug consumption rooms and UK
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| Drug deaths are rising and overdose prevention centres save lives, so why is the UK unwilling to introduce them? [19.12.2022] | In late 2020, a converted van appeared in central Glasgow. Inside were clean needles, sterilising equipment, mirrors, “sharps bins” for the disposal ... |
| Scotland's drug deaths: Consumption room pilot on track despite warning over legal barriers [02.02.2022] | The new chair of the SNP’s drug deaths taskforce is confident legal barriers to setting up drug consumption rooms can be overcome as he insisted the ... |
| Overdose prevention centres will save lives, say UK senior doctors [12.12.2021] | Drug addicts should be allowed to use illicit substances in “supervised injecting facilities” with medical staff on hand to ensure no one dies, healt ... |
| The forgotten history of European drug-dealer activism [30.04.2021] | Today, the contributions of drug suppliers towards harm reduction efforts remain mostly neglected by history, although some within the grassroots end ... |
| Calls backed for European-style shooting galleries where addicts can take their own heroin [16.03.2021] | European-style drug rooms where users can take illicit substances have been backed by a Teesside panel. Councillors have spent more than a year exami ... |
| PHE accused of toning down positive report on drug centres [05.03.2021] | Public Health England has been accused of watering down a briefing on the life-saving merits of overdose prevention centres (OPCs) after a paper was ... |
| How a man with a van is challenging UK drug policy [21.11.2020] | Every Friday for the past two months, Peter Krykant has parked his white van on Parnie Street in central Glasgow and waited for people to come by and ... |
| Crime commissioner says its "ludicrous" to chase drug addicts who need help [06.11.2020] | The man running the UK’s most progressive drug diversion scheme believes it’s “totally ludicrous” for officers to seek to arrest drug users at a mobi ... |
| Mobile ‘fix room’ begins operating in Glasgow [02.09.2020] | A drug consumption van where addicts can inject heroin has been launched in Glasgow - despite warnings it could be breaking the law. Peter Krykant, a ... |
| First major study by Glasgow experts finds Scottish public support drug consumption rooms [30.07.2020] | Research from a Glasgow university has revealed that the majority of Scots back the introduction of drug consumption rooms (DCRs) – with academics in ... |
| A shortage of illicit drugs is imminent due to the coronavirus lockdown [24.03.2020] | We’ve already witnessed the havoc of coronavirus as panic-buying compromises supply and distribution of food and some medicines. The illicit drug mar ... |
| What can be done about Scotland's drugs crisis? [26.02.2020] | Scotland has the highest rate of drug-related deaths in Europe and the numbers are continuing to rise at an alarming speed. Both the Scottish governm ... |
| Deputy Mayor wants pilot for safe consumption room in new drug strategy [27.01.2020] | In Bristol, there were 49 drug related deaths in 2017/18 – the highest ever recorded. There are almost 5,000 heroin and crack users in the city and, ... |
| Medical grade heroin drug treatment centre to open in Glasgow [26.11.2019] | A new service providing medical grade heroin to the most problematic drug users in Glasgow is ready to open. The Enhanced Drug Treatment Service will ... |
| SNP formally backs decriminalisation of drugs [13.10.2019] | The SNP has backed decriminalising the possession and consumption of drugs. At its conference in Aberdeen, a resolution was unanimously passed by del ... |
| When harm reduction expansion stifles activism: A lesson from Europe [23.07.2019] | Western European harm reduction presents an interesting paradox. On the one hand, the widespread availability of effective harm reduction programs is ... |
| Drugs expert barred from policy panel after criticising Home Office [11.06.2019] | A government minister vetoed the appointment of an expert to a public body after vetting found she had criticised the Home Office and called for drug ... |
| Drug consumption rooms 'should be considered' in NI [07.03.2019] | Consideration should be given to providing rooms where people can safely inject themselves with illegal drugs, NI's chief medical officer Dr Michael ... |
| A safe fix for Bristol’s drug users and the city [25.01.2019] | Unlike in Bristol, in 66 cities around the world, drug users don’t have to take their drugs in public or down an alleyway. Instead they do it in a cl ... |
| How 'fixing rooms' are saving the lives of drug addicts [21.11.2018] | All over Europe, every day, many thousands of people will inject heroin in drug consumption rooms. But none of these will be in the UK, where drug ad ... |
| Police commissioners urge Home Office to drop opposition to addicts’ ‘fix rooms’ [02.07.2018] | There are renewed calls for the UK government to allow the opening of a drug consumption room in Glasgow after three police and crime commissioners b ... |
| Plans for heroin to be prescribed to addicts in West Midlands [12.02.2018] | Doctors in the West Midlands could soon be prescribing heroin for addicts, who would be invited to inject themselves with clean syringes in drug cons ... |
| Are UK drug consumption rooms likely? [12.10.2017] | What does the Home Office really think about drug consumption rooms - safe and supervised places where addicts can inject or inhale illicit substance ... |
| We already know how to stop people dying from drugs – but the Government refuses to do it [02.08.2017] | Last year saw the highest number of drug-related deaths since records began in 1993. More than half of these deaths involved an opiate, such as heroi ... |
| Drug consumption rooms ruled out by government [26.07.2017] | The UK government has dismissed a call from its own advisory body to consider introducing drug consumption rooms. The Advisory Council on the Misuse ... |
| Durham police will give addicts heroin to inject in 'shooting galleries' [05.03.2017] | Heroin addicts will be given supplies to inject in specially designated “shooting galleries” under radical plans to tackle drug-related crime in Durh ... |
| Why addicts take drugs in 'fix rooms' [09.01.2017] | Britain could soon see its first "fix room" for drug users - a safe space where addicts can take illegal narcotics under medical supervision. But who ... |
| Make heroin available on prescription, official UK drug advisers say [11.12.2016] | Heroin on prescription and supervised injecting rooms are among a range of measures that the government’s drug advisers have suggested to reverse the ... |
| Plans for UK's first drug injecting centre in Glasgow [29.06.2016] | Plans are being drawn up for the UK's first drug injecting facility in Glasgow city centre to tackle rising HIV cases and risk to the public from dis ... |
| Drug rooms: Admirers eye Copenhagen model [29.10.2013] | As a senior police official in northern England calls for safe rooms for the injection of hard drugs, attention has focused on similar projects aroun ... |
| Inside Denmark's 'fixing rooms', where nurses watch as addicts inject in safety [04.05.2013] | Since the launch of the room, the quantity of drug paraphernalia collected from gutters, playgrounds, stairwells and doorways in the area has halved. ... |
| Brighton plans safe rooms for addicts to inject drugs [13.04.2013] | Brighton is set to be the first British city to offer official "drug consumption rooms" where addicts can use heroin, crack and cocaine under supervi ... |
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