WE WILL HALT OD'S LIKE NYC

Yousaf quizzes US city's health chief in drug rooms meeting

- PAUL HUTCHEON

HUMZA Yousaf has held talks with a New York health tsar over the city's drug consumption rooms.

The First Minister said evidence from the US showed lives had been saved as he confirmed plans for a facility in Glasgow.

The SNP administration has long-supported safe consumption rooms as a way of cutting drug deaths but a row with the UK Government held up the move.

A pilot in Scotland's largest city will now go ahead after Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain gave the green light.

She said if a facility was opened, it would "not be in the public interest to prosecute individuals for possession.

The pilot could be up and running within months.