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Safe space: helping Glasgow’s drug users from a van – Yahoo News Australia
In the shade of the buildings at the bottom end of a secluded street in central Glasgow, Peter Krykant gets out of his converted white minibus and glances up an adjacent alleyway.
In the shade of the buildings at the bottom end of a secluded street in central Glasgow, Peter Krykant gets out of his converted white minibus and glances up an adjacent alleyway.
Drug spoons, bloody syringes and human excrement litter the ground.
Krykant, 43, knows these streets well. Before he gave up drugs 11 years ago, he was homeless and would inject cocaine and heroin in places just like these.
“We need to stop criminalising people,” Krykant, who started using drugs when he was 17, told…
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