A MUM was forced to chase a drug addict from her tenement and clean up his blood after he started cooking heroin in her close.

The woman, who does not want to be named, was confronted by the drug user earlier this month when she was taking her one-year-old son out for a walk.

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She contacted the Evening Times following our investigation into the extent of drug use in the Calton and the misery it is causing for residents.

In one close, human excrement, dozens of needles and heroin spoons could seen littering the hallway and back garden.

The mum, who has lived in the Calton for decades, said: “My close is really nice, we have a lot of older people here, but this has started happening and we’ve found human excrement as well.

“We have had to get the service button turned off at the back as they were coming in that way.

“It was only about two weeks ago I saw this man on the bottom step, and he was cooking up as I was going down with my son in his pram. He’s only one year old.

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“It was disgusting. I left the baby on the landing and chased him out.

“He left all the stuff there, and there was blood on the steps.

“The needle had come off the syringe itself, it was broken. I had to put it in the bin myself.

“Whatever he was cooking up was all down the stairs and all over the walls, I had to go down and bleach everything and clean it all.

“It’s not just happening in my close, it’s all about now.”

The residents living in the block are thought to be tenants of Thenue Housing association, which said it can’t deactivate the front service button as not all residents have agreed.

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Brian Gannon, head of Housing at the firm, said: “We sent a letter out to everyone in the close after a tenant raised the problem.

“We know drug users have been gaining access. We take the same approach whenever this happens, we contact all the resident in the close and if they agree to the button being turned off we will do it.

“In this case, not everyone did agree so we’re unable to do it.”

Brian admitted there have been a number of flats which have had to have their service buzzers disabled due to drug users gaining access.

Drug dealers are understood to be blatantly selling drugs in the street, near pubs and bus stops on London Road and the surrounding area.

A source said: “They stand outside a pub on London Road and deal it freely. The police have been round but they can’t stop it completely, they are trying.

“People are buying it there and going in to the nearest close to do it.”

Community Inspector George Campbell, who covers the Calton ward, said a dedicated task force have been assigned to the area, and are working to tackle drug dealing and antisocial behaviour on the streets.