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UK's first drug consumption room gets go ahead to open in Glasgow

Sep 27, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -8% Center

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -8% Center

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Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : "It is time to see this approach piloted in Scotland and while the service would still be limited to some extent, due to the Misuse of Drugs Act reserved to Westminster, we are confident it would save lives.
37% : However, with the Misuse of Drugs Act reserved to Westminster, the previous Lord Advocate declined to issue guidance when the proposal was put to him.
29% : "And so therefore, they are in possession of illegal drugs, as they arrive at the facility and as they enter it, and I'm being pernickety, but it seems to me fairly obvious that someone coming to the facility could technically be regarded as committing a crime because they are in possession of illegal drugs, but quite clearly, we do not want them to be arrested.

*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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