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10.02.2022 - 08:05 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Drugs crusader Peter Krykant has delivered a proposal to open official Overdose Prevention Centres in Glasgow and Dundee within four months.
Krykant, who is in recovery from drug addiction, made world news by running a converted ambulance in Glasgow as an unofficial facility for the city centre’s population of injecting drug users - the most vulnerable to overdose death.
The campaigner, who now works for treatment provider Cranstoun, has helped produce a blueprint that could provide services run from portable cabins for £1.2 million per city per year.
Cranstoun claims it can provide the service, enabling those at high risk of death to inject drugs safely, quicker and far cheaper than the NHS.
The proposals also come a full 12 months after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon promised the urgent roll-out of Heroin Assisted Treatment across Scotland - which has failed to happen and currently assists just 19 people.
Cranstoun’s measures would also bolt on a “Divert” system, in cooperation with Police Scotland, which would channel people caught with drugs into treatment instead of having them charged with crimes.
The private proposals come as Scotland’s Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain, Police Scotland and drugs minister Angela Constance continue to thrash out a workable framework, along with Glasgow’s Health and Social Care partnership.
Krykant said: “OPCs must have robust measures in place for staff and client safety, our proposal estimates that year one running costs would be £1.2m, including staffing, clinical and social care and fixed costs, which would provide 15 injecting areas.
“This model similar to heroin assisted treatment, will run at a fraction of the highly medicalised costs but provide the same safety and security.
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