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Drugs crusader Peter Krykant is seeking to set up an Overdose Prevention Centre in Scotland's worst drug deaths blackspot.

Drugs crusader Peter Krykant has delivered a proposal to open official Overdose Prevention Centres in Glasgow and Dundee within four months.

Drugs campaigner Peter Krykant has told Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross he cannot support the party’s “Right to Recovery” Bill.

ambulance used to defy Westminster's ban on safe drug facilities in Scotland will tour some of the UK’s areas worst hit by drug deaths. The bright yellow “ Overdose Prevention Centre ” kitted out by activist Peter Krykant will also visit the Welsh, Northern Irish and UK parliaments as it makes a powerful push for modern, life saving drug interventions.

Peter Krykant broke down in tears as he read a tribute to a drug death victim during a highly-charged rally at Holyrood. Krykant, who has battled addiction and launched the UK’s first unofficial Overdose Prevention Centre, was overcome as he addressed an audience of MSPs and families affected by drugs.

Anas Sarwar’s “National Recovery Plan” came after the UK Labour leader Keir Starmer repeatedly refused to back any progressive drugs policies and said the Tory drug policy is “roughly right”.Independent candidate Peter Krykant, who is standing in Falkirk with the hope of increasing support for Overdose Prevention Centres (or Drug Consumption Rooms), said he was stunned during a recent hustings when Labour candidate Mark Griffin said he did not support the decriminalisation of drugs.Krykant, who

Peter Krykant claims he has been given the legal green light to run his mobile Overdose Prevention Centre.The Crown Office has told him he will not face court action after he refused to accept a caution relating to the running of his drugs van in Glasgow.The decision to ditch the charge shows that Scotland’s Lord Advocate James Wolffe can apply discretion where he sees fit with drug offences.Campaigners for decriminalisation of drugs, which the Record supports, argue that these types of

Nicola Sturgeon is to meet Scotland’s Lord ­Advocate to discuss a possible ­turnaround on controversial drug laws.The First Minister made the pledge to activist Peter Krykant, whose mobile ­Overdose Prevention Centre, run from a converted minibus, is testing the resolve of police and prosecutors.After online talks with ­Sturgeon and new drugs policy minister Angela Constance last night, Krykant told the Record: “If you asked me a few weeks ago I’d have said I had zero hope of Scotland’s drug

Nicola Sturgeon is to hold talks that could pave the way for an official site where addicts can inject drugs more safely.The First Minister will meet activist Peter Krykant on January 7 – five days before she chairs a meeting of the Scottish Drug Deaths Taskforce for the first time.They will explore the prospect of Scotland making legal history, defying Westminster by opening an Overdose Prevention Centre (OPC) north of the Border.The SNP leader agreed to the meeting on the same day Public

drug deaths.Peter Krykant took his converted mini-bus to Holyrood, where he dared public health minister Joe Fitzpatrick to come out and face him, just one day after another year of record drug deaths were announced.Krykant also addressed Scotland’s Lord Advocate, pleading with him to adopt a “non-prosecution stance” that would effectively decriminalise people taking drugs on the van and people helping keep them safe.Krykant broadcast a live video from the van, saying: “I ask that the Lord

Drug Consumption Room run by activist Peter Krykant in Glasgow city centre were alerted on Friday afternoon after a man took an overdose in a nearby alley.The two volunteers from the converted minibus ran to his aid and gave him a shot of the overdose reversal drug naloxone, which stabilised him until an ambulance arrived.Medics took the man to hospital, where he was expected to recover.The drug user had turned up to use the van, parked on Parnie Street, off the Trongate in the city, which is

Drugs Consumption Room is still on the road after an insurance wrangle threatened to scupper it.Peter Krykant refused to take his converted Ford Transit mini-bus off the road after his insurers withdrew cover.Now he has negotiated a new deal allowing him to remain on the road.He has also pledged to adapt his methods to stay within the law – allowing him to avoid being arrested.Police have warned he faces being charged if any crimes relating to the Misuse of Drugs Act are committed in his

Westminster appeal for a drug treatment activist to be given an exemption for his mobile consumption facility in Glasgow has been rejected out of hand by the UK government. Alison Thewliss MP called on the Home Office to grant Peter Krykant permissions for his mobile safe consumption facility in a converted van.

A rebel churchman has vowed to risk jail to make a stand against Scotland’s drug deaths.