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Council mobilises digger to clean up filthy drugs den near UK's first safe consumption room
Council chiefs mobilised a digger to clean up a filthy drugs den near the UK's first safe consumption room.
Glasgow City Council took action in Calton last week in response to complaints from local residents. The council said discarded needles were safely removed, overgrowth was cut back, and other waste was lifted from the derelict land.
Needle bins were also installed at hotspots where public injecting is known to take place. Annemarie Ward, chief executive of Faces and Voices of Recovery UK (FAVOR UK), accused the local authority of "photographing the clean-up like it's some kind of PR victory".
Ms Ward added: "What you're really admitting is this - public injecting has become so normalised in Glasgow that the council is now designing around it. "Syringe bins in public parks.
Clean-ups in residential streets. Needle management instead of addiction treatment.
No detox. No rehab.
No recovery. Just managed decline in hi-vis." Sky News' Scotland correspondent Connor Gillies previously visited the area near The Thistle - the UK's first safer drug consumption facility (SDCF).
A makeshift drugs den was littered with drug paraphernalia and hundreds of freshly-used needles - with one even stabbed into a tree. Long-term resident Vanessa Paton told of how the area was "becoming a toilet.
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