When train spotting was released, it quickly became one of the most iconic British books

and films of the 1990s thanks to its stark but often darkly comic depiction of the lives

of heroin addicts in Edinburgh.

The cult hit Shauna's Spotlight on drug addiction and death in Scotland, but in the decades

that followed, the problem has just grown and grown.

And now Scotland has the highest rate of drug related deaths in Europe by a huge margin.

The rate is three times higher than any other country in Europe, and successive governments

have struggled to control the crisis.

This is everybody's problem, it's been failed drug policies for years and years so everybody

needs to take responsibility for this.

So they're changing tack.

Earlier this year, the SMP's drugs policy minister announced her support for a radical change.

One of the proposals the Scottish drugs policy minister's making to the UK government

the decriminalisation of drugs for personal supply.

The drug laws as they stand at the moment are punitive, they discriminate against people

who use drugs and they criminalise them.

And last week, the first drug consumption room was approved in Glasgow, where users will

be able to take drugs without fear of arrest, which campaigners say will reduce the number

of deaths.

The idea of a safer drug consumption room is people bring their own drugs that they've

purchased from wherever, they'll bring them along to a safe environment, it's chaos,

chaos, like this.

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