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Scotland’s Health Secretary has said he does not believe Glasgow residents are spreading misinformation about the city’s safer drug consumption room. ‌

Neil Gray’s comments appear to contradict an official briefing prepared for him before a Scottish Affairs Committee appearance on Scotland’s drugs death rate – the highest in Europe. ‌

The internal paper, first reported in The Herald newspaper, stated that colleagues in the Glasgow Health and Social Care Partnership, jointly run by the local council and NHS board to deliver health services in the city, had concerns about community meetings opposed to The Thistle. ‌

The briefing said local health leaders believed “a lot of the information” shared at the meetings was “incorrect”. It added that claims made by those

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