Volunteers at a Glasgow drug consumption room save man's life after street overdose
Drug Consumption Room run by activist Peter Krykant in Glasgow city centre were alerted on Friday afternoon after a man took an overdose in a nearby alley.The two volunteers from the converted minibus ran to his aid and gave him a shot of the overdose reversal drug naloxone, which stabilised him until an ambulance arrived.Medics took the man to hospital, where he was expected to recover.The drug user had turned up to use the van, parked on Parnie Street, off the Trongate in the city, which is being privately funded and operated because the Hoome Office blocked an official Drug Consumption Room in the city. But he didn’t enter the facility, which has clean needles and chairs, as a police car was parked next to the converted mini-bus.