The government has been accused of negligence after it admitted failing to assess a life-saving service which could help combat the wave of lethally strong synthetic opioids sweeping the UK.
Experts have pleaded with ministers to back the use of drug consumption rooms – already used to reduce drug deaths in 17 other countries worldwide – as a tool to fight the looming crisis already claiming six lives a week in Britain, as new opioids contaminate supplies of heroin, and even illicit diazepam and vapes.
