Inside the UK's first legal drug consumption room

Welcome to the Thistle - the UK's first and only drug consumption room.

After nearly a decade of deadlock and wrangling over drug laws the centre is finally ready to open.

On Monday it will welcome its first clients who will come in to inject illegally-bought heroin or cocaine under medical supervision.

The Thistle is based in Glasgow's east end, where there is a high population of users who take drugs in public.

Funded by the Scottish government, its aim is to reduce overdoses and drug-related harm as well as making drug use less visible to the community.

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