‘This decision will save lives’: Call for evidence-based approach to drugs Australia-wide The RACGP has welcomed Victoria’s decision to make a medically supervised injecting room ongoing, with GP Dr Hester Wilson urging other jurisdictions to take note.
Push for expansion of safe injecting facilities Researchers say ‘substantial evidence’ should encourage governments, in Australia and further afield, to facilitate more medically supervised sites.
Melbourne to get second safe-injecting room The news follows a review of the city’s first facility, though questions remain as to the choice of a site near the busy Queen Victoria Market.
Injecting room goes on despite drug arrests and independent review The facility hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons last week, but the Victorian Government continues to support the trial.
With prescription opioids seemingly ubiquitous, why is heroin making a comeback? Overdoses and deaths from heroin are once again becoming common in parts of Australia.
Richmond safe-injecting room ‘saving lives’ Politician Fiona Patten said the controversial Melbourne facility has managed more than 1100 overdoses since opening in mid-2018.
Calls to move safe-injecting room rebuffed Fiona Patten, the politician who helped pave the way for the Richmond safe-injecting room, has all but ruled out relocating the facility before the end of its two-year trial, despite resident concerns.
Injecting room supporters urge expansion as street drug use grows The Melbourne facility has been called ‘a victim of its own success’.
Inside North Richmond’s safe injecting room Dr Nico Clark, Medical Director of North Richmond’s safe injecting room, takes newsGP through the facility as it approaches its sixth month of operation.
Doctors opposed to plan to scrap injecting room Ahead of this weekend’s Victorian election, health professionals are concerned Matthew Guy’s promise to close the Richmond injecting room would place vulnerable people – and the surrounding community – at risk.