Edinburgh Council is set to hold interviews with drug users in a bid to understand how drug checking services in the city could reduce the risk of overdoses.
The local authority has agreed to expand a feasibility study looking at introducing safe consumption rooms to also include testing facilities which could alert users if substances are potentially dangerous.
One councillor said the two approaches to harm reduction, both of which remain difficult to set-up legally, caters towards "very different type of drug users" however, adding drug checking uptake would "primarily be younger people".
