Scotland faces up to its drug crisis by offering the UK’s first supervised injection facility

Mihaela Măncilă

CNN  —  In a quiet corner of Glasgow’s East End, a radical public health experiment is underway. For the first time in the United Kingdom, people who inject illicit drugs such as heroin and cocaine can do so under medical supervision – in a safe environment and indoors. No arrests. No judgment. No questions about where the drugs came from – only how to make their use less deadly. The facility, known as the Thistle, opened in January amid mounting political and public health pressure to confront

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