Reports of discarded needles and other drug paraphernalia found in Glasgow have reached a ten-year high, it has been reported.
Figures obtained by BBC Scotland suggest reports of used drug-taking kit are at their highest levels in a decade.
Glasgow City Council was contacted 802 times last year by concerned residents requesting the council move needles and other equipment from public places.
The council claimed it dispatched a rapid response team to each sighting.
Accordiing to the new figures, reports of drug-taking equipment generally dropped from 2009 to 2016 and then spiked suddenly in 2017.
The lowest number in a year was 2015, when only 385 reports were made.
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The council highlighted the recent opening of its Enhanced Drug Treatment Service.
A spokeswoman for the council said: "It is anticipated that this service will help to reduce to drug-related litter in affected communities".
Glasgow City Council has also been lobbying Holyrood and the UK Government to allow it to introduce safer drug consumption facilities, so-called "fix rooms".
These facilities would allow drug-users to inject in safe and clean spaces under medical supervision.
Opening one would require a change in the law at a UK level, which the Home Office opposes.
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