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.
Safe injecting room richmond.
The department of health and human services is coordinating a trial of a medically supervised injecting room at north richmond community health.
Frontline police say the trial of richmond s safe injecting room has led to a spike in crime and mental health issues in the area.
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.
Stop bringing kids into the issue of the centre the last thing we need is the centre being closed down and more people dying in the streets.
But the solution has caused division among locals.
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 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 safe injecting centre opens after mass overdose deaths in a small inner city suburb of melbourne drug use is rampant and flagrant.
The new larger safe injecting room in richmond.
The victorian government is trialling a medically supervised injecting room at the north richmond community health site in north richmond melbourne.
With the high numbers of victorians losing their lives to drug related overdoses the medically supervised injecting room msir is a safety first medical approach focused on harm reduction.
Furious residents living near melbourne s safe injecting room say roaming drug users are gathering en masse without face masks defecating in side streets and leaving used syringes outside homes.
Local officers were surveyed by the police association which has.
Unfortunately some initial reporting was inaccurate.