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The Stephen Jardine Programme: Should there be 'fix rooms' for drug users?

20/04/2018

Should there be 'fix rooms' for drug users?

BBC Radio Scotland - The Stephen Jardine Programme, Should there be 'fix rooms' for drug users?

Stephen Jardine asks if you would welcome the introduction of 'fix rooms' for drug users. Plus would you be able to spot fake news?

MSPs have backed plans to introduce the UK's first safe injection room for drug users in Glasgow.They hope the so-called "fix room" will help to tackle an increase in street injecting and HIV. But the Scottish government's top legal adviser, the Lord Advocate, says the facility would be illegal unless the UK government changes the law. Drug deaths in Scotland have increased in the last year so would a new approach work or is it sending out the wrong message to drug users?

Stephen asks: MSPs have voted to introduce Fix Rooms in Scotland - Do you welcome this new approach?

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