Safe Injecting Room Richmond Address

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A second safe injecting room is planned for melbourne opposite the queen victoria market after a report handed to the state government showed demand for the north richmond facility had surged. The melbourne supervised injecting room msir hit the headlines this week with reports that two individuals linked to the north richmond community health centre which houses the service had been arrested. The facility aims to reduce the high amount of victorian drug overdose deaths. The medically supervised injecting room at north richmond community health opened in july 2019.

Mark soffer who lives 400m from the medically supervised injecting room in north richmond said locals were too scared to go outside for their one hour of permitted lockdown exercise. Luke henriques gomes the guardian a u s t r a l i a n a s s o c i a. Local officers were surveyed by the police association which has. The victorian government is trialling a medically supervised injecting room at the north richmond community health site in north richmond melbourne.

The outside of the north richmond safe injecting room in melbourne on june 29 2018 abc news. A medically supervised injecting room is a place where people can inject drugs of dependence in a supervised health setting. It can also provide a gateway for people who inject drugs to access other health and social. 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.

But the solution has caused division among locals. Michael barnett the independent panel s report found the north richmond facility recorded 119 000. North richmond safe injecting centre opens after mass overdose deaths in a small inner city suburb of melbourne drug use is rampant and flagrant. One was reportedly charged with drug offences and later released on bail while a second person was released without charge.