Welcome to the Thistle - the UK's first and only drug consumption room. After nearly a decade of deadlock and wrangling over drug laws the centre is finally ready to open. On Monday it will welcome its first clients who will come in to inject illegally-bought heroin or cocaine under medical supervision.

The opening of the UK’s first safer drugs consumption room will be a “significant step forward” in efforts to tackle Scotland’s drug problem, John Swinney has said. The First Minister was speaking as he toured the Thistle Centre in Glasgow’s east end, which is due to open on Monday.

The UK’s first safer drugs consumption room will open in Scotland in an effort to tackle the country’s major drugs problem. The Thistle Centre, in Glasgow ’s east end, will allow addicts to take drugs – including heroin – under supervision in a clean and hygienic environment, with help on hand if they suffer an overdose.

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,

John Swinney supports the launch of Britain's first sanctioned drug consumption facility in Glasgow, aimed at reducing drug-related deaths and infecti

The Thistle drug consumption room - the first of its kind in the UK - will open in Glasgow on Monday in a bid to drive down Scotland's drug deaths rate

In a few days, the UK’s first drug consumption room will open its doors in Glasgow. The centre, known as ‘The Thistle’, will provide a clean place for people to inject drugs under medical supervision. Scotland’s death rate from drugs is the worst in Europe, with over a thousand dying in 2023, and the aim is to reduce fatal overdoses.

Scotland, which has the highest rate of recorded drugs deaths in Europe, is opening a new facility for users to inject illegal drugs under medical supervision.