Swinney: Consumption room should help reduce ‘entirely unacceptable’ drug deaths

First Minister John Swinney and Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken arrive at The Thistle Centre (Jane Barlow/PA) - (PA Wire)

John Swinney has said he hopes the UK’s first safer drugs consumption room will help reduce the “entirely unacceptable” level of drug deaths in Scotland.

The First Minister was speaking as he toured the new facility in Glasgow with his Health Secretary Neil Gray – who said the centre could be replicated not just in Scotland but across the UK if it proves to be a success.