Richmond Safe Injecting Room Opening

North richmond safe injecting centre opens after mass overdose deaths in a small inner city suburb of melbourne drug use is rampant and flagrant.

Richmond safe injecting room opening.

The victorian government is trialling a medically supervised injecting room at the north richmond community health site in north richmond melbourne. Last week north richmond community health opened its medically supervised injecting room. The supervised injecting room in north richmond remains open until 9pm on weekdays meaning drug users can flock there beyond the city s nightly 8pm curfew. The new larger safe injecting room in richmond.

The victorian government moves to address concerns from residents in north richmond about the unintended consequences of the success of the state s first medically supervised safe injecting room. 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. Reason party mlc fiona patten the politician who helped pave the way for the richmond safe injecting room believes the numbers are evidence the centre is working saving lives and getting people into much needed treatment and recovery. Ian currie the centre has.

Cohealth was already working closely with staff from the north richmond centre to learn from its trial of a safe injecting room. Jul 9 2018 latest news. Medical supplies at the safe injecting room. 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.

North richmond community health where the facility is housed sits within the so called rectangle of death where as many as 20 of all victorian heroin overdose deaths occur. But the solution has caused division among locals. Posted 5 jun june 2020 fri friday 5 jun june 2020 at 2 53am. 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.

For the past forty years we have spent every day working to improve the health and wellbeing of our community. The injecting room will soon be open from 7am until 9pm on weekdays and from 8am until 7pm on weekends.