The programme will target those with the “most severe, long-standing and complex addiction issues,” the City Council said. It is available only to drug users already involved with the city’s team fighting addiction among homeless people. The number of deaths directly caused by drugs has risen in Scotland almost year on year since records began in the mid-1990s. The number of homeless drug users with HIV in Glasgow also increased in recent years, which one study attributed to the sharing of needles and other equipment. “People might question why health services are spending money providing heroin for people with addictions,” she said.

Source: bd News24 November 28, 2019 09:56 UTC