Inside the UK’s first drug consumption room

英国首个药物消费室内部

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2025-03-18

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Libby Brooks reports from the Thistle, a new Glasgow clinic that offers somewhere for people to use drugs in a safer, hygienic environment. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is the Guardian today, Scotland's radical new approach to the misuse of drugs.

  • Giving people a safe place to use them.

  • You can look in at this space in here and you can just see the level of.

  • And just obviously be careful.

  • But because there is a lot of drug paraphernalia there, the spoons,

  • you've got the sterile water and things like that as well,

  • you get the packets from the needles and stuff.

  • So this site is just typical of a public injecting site in Glasgow, which is shocking, it really is.

  • This is Alan Casey,

  • a counsellor in Glasgow and he's showing my colleague Libby Brooks around a car park supermarket in the east of the city.

  • But as you can see, this is just really risky for everybody involved,

  • like the folk who are injecting.

  • It's dirty, it's not a very pleasant place to be.

  • And the risk of kind of blood borne viruses, infections,

  • all of that kind of stuff are really prevalent in species like this.

  • This is just typical of what we experience in some of the locations around about the east end of Glasgow and the east end of the city centre.

  • This area is ground zero for one of the worst drug misuse problems.

  • And in Europe, people using in public spaces,

  • barely hidden from parents taking their kids to buy groceries.

  • No.