Glasgow - Delivering the UK's first Drug Consumption Room
About this episode
The episode discusses the establishment of the UK's first drug consumption room in Glasgow and its implications for harm reduction services.
What is happening in Glasgow will be crucial in the development of harm reduction services across the UK in the next decade. Dr Saket Priyadarshi, clinical lead of Glasgow's treatment services and Gillian Ferguson co-ordinator of Glasgow Alcohol and Drug Partnership - the local commissioning and co-ordinating body - discuss the background to delivering the UK's first drug consumption room - the issues it will address; how it has been designed and delivered and how its impacts will be evaluated.
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