Debate contribution: Dual-diagnosis Services: Emergency Departments
Debate contribution by Mr Robin Swann on .
- MLA
- Mr Robin Swann
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 4 March 2024
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Dual-diagnosis Services: Emergency Departments
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4254505
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I thank the Member for the question. His party leader, the Justice Minister, and I have promoted the increased use of naloxone by not just my blue-light services — the Ambulance Service and the Fire and Rescue Service — but the PSNI and other community settings that have the appropriate support. As regards an overdose prevention centre, the Member will be aware that drug consumption rooms or safe injecting facilities are not permitted under the UK-wide Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The issue of criminal sanctions for those found in possession of drugs is governed by the Misuse of Drugs Act and remains a reserved matter. Pilots for overdose prevention facilities are being progressed in Glasgow and Dublin. I will give due consideration to the new interventions, as appropriate, within a wider legislative framework.
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