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The woman is gasping for breath as she tries to stifle sobs while her solicitor tells the sheriff she wants to be sent to prison.

The fridge is well stocked from top to bottom with beer - shelves packed with cans of Budweiser and Stella.

Official statistics show 2% increase.

Simon Community Scotland deputy CEO Hugh Hill charts the rise in rough sleeping in Scotland.

The Harm Reduction Group welcomes Dr Benjamin Weil from The Love Tank CIC to discuss the use of Doxy PrEP/PEP (the use of doxycycline to avoid STIs) for chemsex. Doxy PrEP/PEP offers the same possibility as HIV PrEP/PEP, but for the sexual transmission of bacterial infections - yet there is a degree of hesitance about the tool. In this talk, the speaker will take this critical moment to appraise a technology-in-the-making and consider how and whether we might discursively or clinically intervene...

For the past year a Glasgow project has been trying to manage homeless alcoholics by giving them regular measures of booze.

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He guidelines say a maximum of 17 standard drinks for men and 11 units for women each week is safe.