BBC Article Rating

This needle-strewn alley is where I inject drugs

Sep 27, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -72% Very Liberal

  • Reliability

    15% ReliablePoor

  • Policy Leaning

    -72% Very Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

38% : He spoke candidly about his experience to the BBC as the UK's first official consumption room for illegal drugs - including heroin and cocaine - was approved by the city's authorities.
36% : The idea of safe consumption rooms has been discussed for years but it is able to go ahead now after Scotland's senior law officer said users would not be prosecuted for possessing illegal drugs while at the facility.
32% : The consumption room plan is supported by Scottish National Party, Labour and Liberal Democrat politicians but the UK Home Office insists "there is no safe way to take illegal drugs".

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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