Safe space: Helping Glasgow's drug users from a van

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In the shade of the buildings at the bottom end of a secluded street in central Glasgow, Peter Krykant gets out of his converted white minibus and ...

22 Sep 2020 12:43PMGLASGOW: In the shade of the buildings at the bottom end of a secluded street in central Glasgow, Peter Krykant gets out of his converted white minibus and glances up an adjacent alleyway.Krykant, 43, knows these streets well. Before he gave up drugs 11 years ago, he was homeless and would inject cocaine and heroin in places just like these.

It contains clean needles, injecting equipment and doses of Naloxone, a drug that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.He took the vehicle out for the first time in the first week of September. Nine people used it that day. But while Scotland's devolved government in Edinburgh backs the use of safe consumption areas, the country's drug laws are governed by the UK government in London.

"Police Scotland have been great so far," he says."In terms of what they have to deal with, they are kind of between a rock and a hard place.

 

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