The UK Government has set its face against prioritising public health approaches to drug use. So what now?
Andrew Tickell explains how the Scottish Government got around Westminster's stubborn refusal to allow such a projectWe know the Scottish Government wants to establish safer drug consumption facilities in Glasgow. We know the local authority and NHS support them. We know there is a majority in
in favour of such a policy. We also know that the UK Government has set its face against prioritising public health approaches to drug use.extending powers to give recorded police warnings to people caught in possession of Class A substances early on in her tenure.
Her predecessor threw out a blizzard of legal detail to explain why he wasn’t prepared to give legal reassurances to drugs workers and service users they wouldn’t be prosecuted. He pointed out – correctly in legal terms – that possession of controlled drugs is a criminal offence under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 which anyone bringing heroin into the facility would be committing.
For months, Bain has remained inscrutable – as the UK Government worked hard to close down alternative ways of establishing safer drugs consumption facilities. The simplest way to set up these facilities has always been with a Home Office licence – but even proposals for a pilot scheme were summarily rebuffed.
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