Drugs crusader Peter Krykant has delivered a proposal to open official Overdose Prevention Centres in Glasgow and Dundee within four months.
Krykant, who is in recovery from drug addiction, made world news by running a converted ambulance in Glasgow as an unofficial facility for the city centre’s population of injecting drug users - the most vulnerable to overdose death.
The campaigner, who now works for treatment provider Cranstoun, has helped produce a blueprint that could provide services run from portable cabins for £1.2 million per city per year.Cranstoun claims it can provide the service, enabling those at high risk of death to inject drugs safely, quicker and far cheaper than the NHS.
The proposals also come a full 12 months after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon promised the urgent roll-out of Heroin Assisted Treatment across Scotland - which has failed to happen and currently assists just 19 people.
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