Das Leben neben dem ersten Drogenkonsumraum Großbritanniens
https://news.sky.com/story/living-beside-the-uks-first-drug-consumption-room-13373285
Von ThatchersDirtyTaint
Das Leben neben dem ersten Drogenkonsumraum Großbritanniens
https://news.sky.com/story/living-beside-the-uks-first-drug-consumption-room-13373285
Von ThatchersDirtyTaint
9 Kommentare
> It’s 8.34am on a Tuesday and Vanessa Paton is taking me on a tour of Glasgow’s east end, where she has lived for almost 50 years
It would be hard to find a house that isn’t next to a drug consumption room in Glasgow.
So it’s an area synonymous with heroin use for decades anyway, and the vandalised areas are nowhere near the drug consumption room?
Apparently the council considers this normal. Cleaning it up must be too much effort for them. It’s not fair that the drug consumption room is getting the blame in that case. I suspect there might be some mid-level council employees playing politics here though.
This seems a bit like the idea of beaver and predator reintroduction, agencies involved need to be proactive in supporting the people impacted by such changes.
If the benefits of drug consumptions rooms are so great, they need to get this aspect right.
>”There is a nursery that actually uses a metal detector in the morning to scan the sandpits before the children go out because of the concern of the needles being in it,“ she claims.
What in the dystopian fucking nightmare is this? How can people be expected to live like that?
Costs £2.3 million per year … used by 250 people so far. Mmmm.
The Glasgow consumption room is a step forward, but it isn’t part of a national strategy to solve this crisis, it’s just a headline spinner.
Switzerland faced a worse crisis in the 90s and responded by dismantling trafficking networks while offering proper treatment and support to users. Police targeted dealers with surveillance, financial investigations, and international coordination. Today, Switzerland has some of the lowest drug related crime and death rates in the developed world.
The UK has gone the other way. Drug units have been defunded. County lines gangs operate with minimal resistance. Most forces avoid supply enforcement because it is expensive and invisible to the public. Arresting users is cheaper and looks better in the stats.
Treatment is underfunded. Harm reduction is still politically toxic. There is no national plan, just one site in Glasgow and a lot of headlines.
Until the UK takes down the supply networks and funds serious treatment, nothing will change. Consumption rooms help, but they cannot fix a system that refuses to go after the root cause.
> „The council has not seen a rise in reports of injecting equipment and there has not been an increase in crime reports.“
These places are never put beside the people that think they are a great idea.