Scottish First Minister John Swinney and Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken visit the Thistle Centre Safer Drugs Consumption Facility in Glasgow, the UK's first safer drug consumption room, ahead of its opening on Monday. While drugs remain illegal in Scotland, users inside the facility can access clean needles and NHS staff support to reduce harm and improve safety. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Well, I don't want to do that exactly, but I thought I would do it.
00:07I'm with the Living Experience Reference Group.
00:10I'm so excited to be able to show you the facility,
00:14and what I would like to do is just give you a quick tour of the facility,
00:18and along the way you'll meet some key members of staff.
00:21People can come here without an appointment, without referral.
00:25They can use the service confidentially.
00:29We are looking forward to this. We're excited.
00:35Working here might be production workers, engineers, just to name a few.
00:48I'm a waiter.
00:51In this building, they won't be sharing any equipment.
00:56The equipment needs to be cleaned.
00:58So things like transnational blood-borne viruses,
01:01and the reduction in infections and news,
01:04they're injecting stuff here as well.
01:10I think we can have a conference between some of the individuals
01:16who are injecting here.