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. The pilot facility in Glasgow -- backed by a £2 million ($2.
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.
The devolved government in Edinburgh, led by Swinney's Scottish National Party, also hopes to help drug users improve their lives at the centre and reduce the wider negative impacts of them injecting in public places. Opening Monday in Glasgow's East End -- a hotspot for deprivation and drug use -- it follows years of political legal wrangling between the parliaments in London and Edinburgh.
But he added it"will not interfere with, and indeed respects" the independence of Scotland's top law officer"when it comes to these issues".Scotland's drug-related death rates have soared over recent years, in part as decades of abuse by the so-called"Trainspotting generation" finally take their toll.
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