Health professionals in the Forth Valley area have been issued with a warning to be vigilant after two cocaine users in Glasgow were treated for a rare and life-threatening condition associated with the use of the drug.
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Showing posts with label Glasgow. Show all posts
Monday, 16 February 2009
Thursday, 13 March 2008
Duncan Haldane admitted being concerned in the supply of heroin on 5, April 2007
Duncan Haldane, now 17, from Possilpark, Glasgow admitted being concerned in the supply of heroin on 5, April 2007.The court heard Haldane had the drug stuffed down his trouser leg when police stopped a car in which he was a front seat passenger.
He was remanded in custody and will be sentenced next month.Haldane admitted being concerned in the supply of the drug at the Travel Inn, Bowtree Services, near Kincardine Bridge and in London Road, Glasgow.Police targeted the car after they received information drugs were being couriered from the Fife area to Glasgow.
They followed the car from near the Kincardine Bridge to the city where it was stopped.Police found a supermarket carrier bag containing almost a kilo of heroin in Haldane's trouser leg. http://news.bbc.co.uk
He was remanded in custody and will be sentenced next month.Haldane admitted being concerned in the supply of the drug at the Travel Inn, Bowtree Services, near Kincardine Bridge and in London Road, Glasgow.Police targeted the car after they received information drugs were being couriered from the Fife area to Glasgow.
They followed the car from near the Kincardine Bridge to the city where it was stopped.Police found a supermarket carrier bag containing almost a kilo of heroin in Haldane's trouser leg. http://news.bbc.co.uk
Saturday, 2 February 2008
overdose kits
overdose kits given to heroin addicts have saved eight lives, leading to calls for them to be provided for thousands of addicts in Scotland.
About 300 of the kits – syringes loaded with the drug naloxone – have been given to addicts' friends and families under two Scottish pilot schemes. Similar action has sharply cut deaths in Berlin, San Francisco and Chicago.
The pilot schemes, in Glasgow and South Lanarkshire, involve take-home doses of naloxone, a liquid that is injected and blocks the effects of opiates. It will keep a heroin user who is slipping into a potentially fatal coma alive for up to 20 minutes.
Under the pilots, which have been running since last April, with the cost of around £40,000 funded by local NHS boards, family members and friends of drug users are given training on how to detect the early signs of an overdose and on basic resuscitation techniques.
There have been six successful uses of the drug in Glasgow and a further two in South Lanarkshire.
But one of Scotland's leading drug experts has voiced grave fears that the drug will only encourage even more reckless drug abuse among Scotland's estimated 50,000 heroin addicts.
Neil McKeganey, professor of drug misuse research at Glasgow University, also believes giving drug users' families needles to take home will put children in danger and says the pilots are not being properly evaluated.
With the number of drug deaths hitting a record high of 421 in 2006 and a similar figure expected for 2007, experts say naloxone kits should be given to thousands of addicts' relatives and friends around the country.
Dr Jane Jay, chairwoman of the National Drug Death Forum, said: "This drug has, in a number of cases, made the difference between life and death. The cost is relatively low, but I would also ask 'what price a life'?"
She is now urging Kenny MacAskill, the justice secretary, to approve a national roll-out of naloxone among all heroin addicts in Scotland.
About 300 of the kits – syringes loaded with the drug naloxone – have been given to addicts' friends and families under two Scottish pilot schemes. Similar action has sharply cut deaths in Berlin, San Francisco and Chicago.
The pilot schemes, in Glasgow and South Lanarkshire, involve take-home doses of naloxone, a liquid that is injected and blocks the effects of opiates. It will keep a heroin user who is slipping into a potentially fatal coma alive for up to 20 minutes.
Under the pilots, which have been running since last April, with the cost of around £40,000 funded by local NHS boards, family members and friends of drug users are given training on how to detect the early signs of an overdose and on basic resuscitation techniques.
There have been six successful uses of the drug in Glasgow and a further two in South Lanarkshire.
But one of Scotland's leading drug experts has voiced grave fears that the drug will only encourage even more reckless drug abuse among Scotland's estimated 50,000 heroin addicts.
Neil McKeganey, professor of drug misuse research at Glasgow University, also believes giving drug users' families needles to take home will put children in danger and says the pilots are not being properly evaluated.
With the number of drug deaths hitting a record high of 421 in 2006 and a similar figure expected for 2007, experts say naloxone kits should be given to thousands of addicts' relatives and friends around the country.
Dr Jane Jay, chairwoman of the National Drug Death Forum, said: "This drug has, in a number of cases, made the difference between life and death. The cost is relatively low, but I would also ask 'what price a life'?"
She is now urging Kenny MacAskill, the justice secretary, to approve a national roll-out of naloxone among all heroin addicts in Scotland.
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