Swinney: Consumption room should help reduce ‘entirely unacceptable’ drug deaths - The First Minister has visited the UK’s first facility where drug users can inject in a clean and safe environment.

The centre will allow addicts to take drugs under supervision in a clean and hygienic environment, with medical help available if they suffer an overdose.

Glasgow's new safer drug consumption room is a UK first. First Minister John Swinney said he hopes it will help reduce the “entirely unacceptable” level of drug deaths in Scotland

Scotland's leader John Swinney hailed Friday the opening next week of Britain's first official consumption room for illegal drugs, after a years-long battle with the UK government over the issue.Conservative ministers in Westminster,