Peter Krykant recalls the day he launched mobile DCR in 2020 - and claims that Scotland is not moving at emergency pace
Drugs campaigner Peter Krykant has blasted the Scottish and UK governments for standing still on reforms.
And he believes that the recommendations of the Home Affairs Committee to bring reforms - including a pilot Drug Consumption Room in Glasgow - are just more babble that will be unlikely to change things any time soon. “It has rejected the views of its own advisory body, the Advisory Committee on the Misuse of Drugs, for years. And it ignored the Scottish Affairs Committee when it supported the decriminalisation of drug possession.”He said: “It’s quite poignant that I’m in Copenhagen visiting facilities that we should have in place in Scotland by now.
He said: “That’s how it started in Denmark and other countries and facilities like the one I’m in today are very much part of the fabric of Copenhagen’s society. They have drug taking areas, inhalation rooms, areas to relax in and medical staff on hand. There are mobile facilities and there’s a drug safety checking area.
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