The alarm seems to be in Britain’s first drug consumption room.

In his 30s, a person has overdated “using space” – a room in Glasgow feature where nurses monitor the injections in eight booths.

He had reached only this minutes, was animated about the discovery by the police on Gallowgate.

Employees run to help, bring him to an accident mat from his seat to the floor.

Our film crew is excluded from the area, while an ambulance is called and employees work to save their lives.

AD Carney, a worker who has reduced a loss, tells us that he had taken drugs three times that day before that day.

“He is using a ‘snowball’, using heroin and cocaine,” he explains.

“He is in two minutes and he is on the floor.”

We are filming at the center after two days of special access to the leading and controversial consumption room.

After less than an hour, the alarm again seems to be again, for another man in its 30s.

He was led by a donation to welcome by the workers, then made his way to booths to inject heroin.

Service Manager Lynn McDonald, tells us that this is another medical emergency.

“The first four weeks, there was no medical emergency, and then we had five this week.

“It can be a batch of drug that is problematic. People are seeing a difference in heroin when they make it, they say that they are watching a green tingling.”

She says that more paramedics are on their way.

Both men are rounded using overdose reversal drug naloxone before being viewed by paramedics. The second is taken to the hospital.

Lynn McDonald later told us: “I am fully convinced that we were not present during the overdose that we have seen inside the thongs, so people would not have survived.”

In 12 weeks since the opening of the thistle at the eastern end of Glasgow, there have been 16 such overdose incidents.

A total of 180 people have visited the unit and more than 1,200 injections of road-borne heroin and cocaine have been overseen.

A total of 27 people have been referred to for other services including housing by employees.

Seva, which follows similar programs in 18 other countries, wants to reduce drug -related damage in a staunch population of injuring users in one of the most disadvantaged communities in Glasgow.

It is expected that by providing a safe place, it would allow the medical staff to prevent overdose deaths, reduce blood-borne viruses, and clean a local area, historically, a major issue with needles and drug debris.

David Clarke has been using drugs for 26 years and has spent the long roads of his life on the streets.

He allowed BBC Scotland to follow his progress over a period of three months as he tried to move beyond the city’s center hostel and use heroin and cocaine.

The 47 -year -old told the disclosure that he used the Tisle service to inject cocaine in February.

From there, the employees referred to him to the newly supported accommodation. At the time of his interview, he was a moderate for two weeks.

He said: “When I (in the consumption room), it was not what I expected.

“I thought you would go in, which you are doing and doing out. But it is not so.

“The members of the staff there supported me and helped me reach yet.

“It helps me on a large scale. I feel better in myself.”

During our visit in early March, we met James – not his real name – who have been injecting drugs for many years. Now in the mid -20s, he was one of the first people to participate in the thongs.

He says that the feature is “spectacular”.

“It’s very safe. I was going to the car parks, the railway tracks, the banks of the forests – anywhere I could feel sufficient to do it without holding it.”

He admitted that the use of his drugs publicly was dangerous. “Especially on my own, as well. I have Od’d Umpteen Bar.”

The Center remains controversial in the community near Calton.

During the consulting meetings, which was extended the project, the local people expressed concern about the area of ​​becoming a drug tolerance area and feared that it would encourage the increase in the drug dealing on the roads.

One of the most vocal inhabitants, Linda Watson stated that the Center was already attracting more people in the area to use drugs.

He took a disclosure on the known tour of Calton using the spot and said that there was evidence of fresh renunciation needles.

Linda also expressed anger over the lack of investment in the region.

“When we were going to the first meetings, the drug workers were: ‘We are providing a feature for your community, it will improve your community”.

“But this is not for those who live in our community. It is for those who come to our community to buy drugs, take drugs and leave all these stuff.

“Why are they not helping us are not in the first place for this? Why have we got to accept that this place is going to be like all the time?

“Do we not deserve more than this?”

NHS Greater Glasgow and Drug Services Associate Medical Director Dr. Saket Priyarsadarshi said that the consumption room of the drug was not meant to meet the health requirements of the people using only the service.

“It will also improve the social environment for communities, residents, businesses and visitors in these areas,” he said.

“Thishal is hopeful that it will reduce drug -related mortality for the population that it works. But it is a relatively small population compared to Scotland.

“Its contribution to national drug death data will not be very important. We have to be honest about it.”

Dr. Priyadarshi said that there is a lot of anger coming out of the community related to lack of resources for other services in the area.

He said, “Sometimes I worry that the room of residential rehabilitation or drug consumption, focusing on debate and discussion, takes our eyes away from the big picture,” he said.

“What are the major drivers here? Major drivers are communities that experience high levels of lack and inequality that experience the highest rates of drug related deaths and drug -related losses.”

The consumption chamber was first proposed in 2017 as an HIV outbreak response among Glasgow’s injection drug users, which was seen to be the worst in the UK for 30 years.

Health officials had hoped that offering a sterile space to inject users would reduce the risk of blood-borne virus.

However, the scheme critics said that other recovery services should be provided more money.

The then Lord Advocate James Wolf rejected the proposals, which were also rejected by the UK’s house office.

The scheme was revived in 2021 when the Scottish government announced its national mission to reduce the country’s record drug death yoga.

After a change in prosecution policy, the Center was approved in September 2023, which allowed users to bring drugs to the center without fear of charging.

With the money provided by the Scottish government in the three -year pilot period, it will cost £ 2.3m per year to run.

The government says it is part of several measures being introduced to deal with drug deaths in Scotland, with the highest recorded mortality in Europe.

A final report on the overall impact of the unit is scheduled to take place in 2028 after the end of the pilot period.

• Additional Reporting by Kevin Anderson and Katie Mcqueni