McNeil
Shoots Down Drugs Gallery Call
Condemning today’s report from an
independent panel which calls for so-called “shooting galleries” – special
rooms where heroin users could legally inject the drug – to be trialled in the
UK, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Duncan McNeil, said:
“Yet again, we see the
focus of this debate on the drug users and what’s supposedly best for them,
not on the harm they’re doing to their families and communities.
“This concentration on
what’s in addicts’ best interests has led to the situation we’re in now
– where more than 300 babies are born addicted to heroin and other illegal
drugs every year.
“The more important
question isn’t how we make taking drugs safer, it’s how we make taking drugs
less prevalent.”
ENDS
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