Glasgow addict reveals he won't use drug fix room - despite living next door
AN ADDICT has slammed Scotland’s new drug consumption room – insisting he won’t use it despite living next door. Jamie Docherty, 30, branded the £2.3million-a-year Thistle Centre a waste of m…
AN ADDICT has slammed Scotland’s new drug consumption room - insisting he won’t use it despite living next door.
Jamie Docherty, 30, branded the £2.3million-a-year Thistle Centre a waste of money and says the cash would be better spent on getting drug users into rehab.
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The Thistle Centre was opened last week - a UK first for drug consumptionCredit: Alan MacGregor Ewing2
One addict who lives close by said he would rather get rehabCredit: Tom FarmerThe controversial ‘fix’ room allows heroin and cocaine users to shoot up without fear of prosecution in a UK first.
It opened last Monday in Calton, Glasgow.
Jamie said: “I stay right next door to it. I’m literally a stone’s throw away but I don’t plan on using them.
"I’m a serial relapser and I was using last week so hopefully I don’t have to use it.
Read More Scottish News“I can’t get funding for a rehab, I have to go to Christian treatment centres.
"I go there and there’s nothing based on recovery, it’s all just getting slapped in the face with a bible.
“All they want to do here in Glasgow is put you up on a script, give you more prescriptions.
"When really I just want to be clean and off drugs.
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“They’re spending £2 million a year on this. How many people could have gone to rehab with that funding?”
The “safe” unit at the Hunter Street Health Centre is also just yards from a recovery clinic where pharmaceutical grade diamorphine is dished out twice a day to the most severely addicted people to try and wean them off the killer narcotics.
Moment dealer poses with wads of cash while claiming benefits - landing him in jailLord Advocate Dorothy Bain has confirmed nobody will be prosecuted for possession within the facility but the law remains unchanged everywhere else.
This means that many users are concerned they could be arrested on their way to and from the facility.
Jamie believes the move is more about improving the image of Glasgow by getting addicts out of the city centre - despite the service being needed there more than anywhere else.
He said: “It would be a better idea to decriminalise possession and put more of a focus on the city centre, not so far out.
“Maybe 10 years ago some old timers still got their drugs up there but now the drugs are more focused on the city centre.
£127m hit to lifelines
FRONTLINE booze and drugs services are among those to have day-to-day funding cut by £127million — despite record fatalities.
The cashpot to help tackle substance misuse alone is being slashed by £1.6million.
Alcohol and drugs killed 2,449 Scots last year.
Sports, public transport and overstretched courts were also hammered in last month’s Holyrood Budget.
Savings will be used to pay for benefits, including reinstating £100 winter fuel payments for OAPs and mitigating the two-child cap.
Scots Tory Craig Hoy (pictured) said “excess spending” on hand-outs while hitting services proves “how detached from reality” SNP ministers are.
“So you’ve got the option where if somebody does drugs in the city centre, they’re going to go for that two minute hit rather than a 30 minute hit because of the time it takes to get to the drug consumption room.
“You come out of Glasgow Central Station and a lot of drugs get bought there and at Union Street. They don’t want tourists seeing it.
“I was away from Glasgow for about a year and a half and the first thing I noticed when I came back was the condition in that circle of how many people were selling drugs and using drugs in that area - people just standing on the side of the street smoking crack.
“If you’re walking down the street with your kids and you see somebody smoking crack, it’s not nice.
“So they’re trying to move it out of the public eye.”
It comes as neighbours living and working in the shadow of a heroin ‘fix room’ fear it will bring more crime to their streets.
Worried residents warned that dealers will lurk outside Scotland’s first legal drug consumption facility to prey on vulnerable addicts.
And concerned traders told how used syringes have already been spotted in streets near the controversial new Thistle Centre in Calton, Glasgow.
Goldsmith Michael Milton, 42, who runs Precious Metal Works nearby, said: “I feel for the people using the centre but there are concerns from people living and working nearby.
“Streets and closes are strewn with dirty needles and there are worries about encouraging more addicts into the area.
“Dealers will have no issues waiting outside to sell more drugs.
Read more on the Scottish Sun“They are a plague. They will be doing what they can to keep customers hooked.”
NHS staff now supervise addicts who can inject in private booths at the £2.3million-a-year facility, which opened last Monday.
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