Drunk people should pay for the treatment they receive at accident and emergency units, a patients' group has suggested.
The Scotland Patients Association will raise the issue at a meeting with Scottish health minister Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March.
It said that regular A&E patients were taking second priority to drunk and uncooperative patients, particularly on Friday and Saturday nights.
Executive director Dr Jean Turner said Glasgow NHS is forced to spend an extra £60,000 a year on policing and security due to the violent behaviour of drunk patients.
She said such patients should be charged a "small sum" to deter them from getting into similar situations, which would go towards a rehabilitation programme that fined patients would have to attend.
"A number of staff and patients are really really scared in A&E," said Turner. "Sober patients feel neglected and staff feel overwhelmed — all sides feel discriminated against.
"We need to find some way of making repeat offenders or violent patients realise the costs involved. People often don't realise the cost of anything until it hits them in the pocket.
"I don't know what the charge would be — enough to make people stop and think."
Turner said the compulsory rehabilitation programme for patients could be "self-funding" eventually.
She also suggested that offenders visit an A&E centre on a busy night to see what it is like or watch footage of themselves behaving badly to help them understand the problem.