However the argument against considers injecting rooms as an unnecessary and.
Safe injecting room richmond debate.
After years of debate and lobbying melbourne may be on the verge of getting its first safe injecting room only the second in australia.
Andy clark reuters october 24 2019 safe injection rooms save lives yet the uk government.
Arguments for the availability of safe injecting rooms believe that even though these facilities may not eradicate drug taking they can make the process less harmful to both the drug users and the public and thus can be a beneficial strategy in the war against drugs.
There has been much commentary and debate on the merits and ills of the medically supervised injecting room in north richmond which was launched last year after fatal heroin overdoses reached a 17 year high in victoria.
Safe injection facilities offer clean syringes bandages and antiseptics to people who use drugs.
In late 2017 labor announced it would trial a medically supervised injecting room at the north richmond community health centre after decades of policy flip flops on the deeply divisive issue.
The service was established for an initial two year trial period which will be extended for a further three years based on the evidence gathered in the initial period.
North richmond has been the hub of victoria s heroin trade for two decades and a safe injecting room was recommended by the coroner after a spate of drug related deaths in the area.
The victorian government is trialling a medically supervised injecting room at the north richmond community health site in north richmond melbourne.
While debate continues to rage over the possible implementation of a safe injecting room in the inner melbourne suburb of richmond with the subject to be debated in victorian parliament today gps in the area are administering life saving healthcare services to drug affected people in and out of their practices.
There have been calls for a north richmond safe.