From BBC Scotland this morning, the above and:
A residential drug service in Glasgow is to close its doors after a long-running financial dispute with its council-owned landlord. The service run by the charity Turning Point Scotland will shut down, while a nearby drug crisis centre will move to the site instead.
This had also been run by Turning Point, but will now be taken over by Glasgow City Council and the city’s Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP). It follows a 14-month dispute over rent increases and repair bills with City Property – an arms-length firm that manages the council’s commercial properties.
Both Turning Point Scotland and Glasgow City HSCP have blamed each other for the decision to close the service.
and of coures:
Scotland’s alcohol and drugs minister, Maree Todd, said she was “very concerned” but the Scottish government could not intervene in a contractual dispute.
This would not happen anywhere else in the UK. The minister has no meaningful role in this and is being door-stepped to politicise the issue negatively for the Scottish Government.
There is much the media operating in Scotland could ask the minister for comment such as this below, but they never do:
From Rapid Action Drug Alerts and Response (RADAR) quarterly report July 2026 published 28 July 2026, the above revealing that Drug-related hospital admissions have dropped to around 75 in the last quarter. This is down from the previous lows of just over 100 and barely half of the March figures in 2024 and 2025.
What has caused this very objective measure of Scotland’s drug problems, more reliable as a measure of the problem than either set of drug deaths?
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