What is it like living beside the UK's first drug consumption room?

The Thistle is a place where drug addicts can bring their heroin and cocaine and are handed clean needles and invited to inject under NHS medical supervision.

Authorities believe it provides a safer, cleaner area for users to do their business, away from the dirty, HIV-ridden back alleys of Glasgow city centre.

Sky News' Connor Gillies spoke to residents in the area who are concerned by the new drug facility.

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