Just a drop down of about twelve feet from the busy walkway along the banks of the River Clyde and yards away from Glasgow Green is a squalid site with hundreds of used syringes and needles.
Cooking spoons, swabs, foil and one hit kit packets litter a riverside site where drug users hide away to inject heroin.
The Glasgow Times was shown the site by Peter Krykant, who is planning to open a mobile drug consumption room as the authorities fail to act.
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Mr Krykant said he plans to do what was done in Denmark and Canada to keep people alive and direct them to support services.
He hopes the authorities will then act and provide the service.
To get to the site drug users have to clamber over a railing then down a ladder which has a plate welded on to make it difficult to go down or up.
Once there, the ground is littered with drug taking equipment, wine bottles and lager cans. There is an old sleeping bag and some old clothes.
The site looks to be used by several people.
In only a small area there are hundreds of syringes, many still with needles attached and many are long needles used to inject the groin because no other suitable vein can be found.
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Many of the spoons are still in their sealed packets as people are using their own spoon to get the drug ready to inject as quickly as possible.
Mr Krykant said it is sites like this that prove the need to have a safer facility.
He is raising money to buy a van and fit it out with safe injecting spaces.
His crowdfunding page was taken down and the money raised refunded to donors.
However, the campaigner is undeterred. He said: “It’s not going to stop me. My wife and I are going to put in more than the £500 we said and we’ve got £1000 from an organisation in England. When the donations are made again we are close to being able to buy the van.”
He said there will be volunteers trained in giving overdose reversal drug naloxone and in overdose awareness.
He said: “I will visit sites like this. In the van we will also have space to talk to people about services and for them to wait to make sure they don’t overdose."
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