> 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.
AdRealistic4984 on
So it’s an area synonymous with heroin use for decades anyway, and the vandalised areas are nowhere near the drug consumption room?
Longjumping_Stand889 on
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.
Sunshinetrooper87 on
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.
Honest-Possible6596 on
>”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?
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> 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?