Guardian
•At last, Britain has a legal drug consumption room – thanks to one man's civil disobedience | Kojo Koram
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Glasgow opened the first legal safe consumption room in the UK this week .
Peter Krykant converted an old minivan into a makeshift safe consumption van.
The former heroin user oversaw nearly 900 injections from local drug users, treating nine overdoses in the vehicle.
The charges were eventually dropped after public pressure from the public.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58389161https://www.gov.scot/news/safer-drug-consumption-pilot/https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2ftransformdrugs.org%2fblog%2fscotland-is-drug-death-capital-of-the-world-heres-how-we-can-shed-that-title&c=E,1,nE0bWYwINsBb1tQzoWfW-PjZj8Hr-zYpsT_UeplnrDNVb3S46Y2Atsqi7aQ-EjCbMQ4I7tgGBKekSDRl1sI5P2GGBjK2mW9x4wPqYbvDdTEy0txXxAFbdlA,&typo=1https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/57649/peter-krykant-and-drug-consumption-van-facilityhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0955395922000901https://www.euda.europa.eu/topics/pods/drug-consumption-rooms_enhttps://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/530629435/DS_OPC_Report_V4.pdf
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