Drug rooms: Admirers eye Copenhagen model
The drug rooms offer a clean and safe environment for addicts
BBC News (UK)
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
As a senior police official in northern England calls for safe rooms for the injection of hard drugs, attention has focused on similar projects around Europe. They point to an experiment in Copenhagen, which Danish police say has saved lives and helped clean up drug-ridden districts. Addicts bring their own drugs, which remain illegal in Denmark, but police in this neighbourhood, Vesterbro, no longer prosecute them for possession.
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