Safe Injecting Rooms North Richmond

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.

Safe injecting rooms north richmond.

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. 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. Officials from the department of health and human services met overnight to discuss allegations two workers at the controversial safe injecting room in richmond had been dealing drugs.

The department of health and human services is coordinating a trial of a medically supervised injecting room at north richmond community health. The location of the injecting room at north richmond community health centre is right next to a school and in the middle of a residential area the petition signed by more than 700 people reads. North richmond residents call for more police patrols to enforce lockdown on rule flouters outside safe injecting room drug users in an inner city suburb are accused of defecating in streets leaving used syringes outside homes and gathering without masks. The victorian government is trialling a medically supervised injecting room at the north richmond community health site in north richmond melbourne.

It should be located in a commercial area as all others in the world are easy to medically supervise. 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. 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. Reason party mlc fiona patten helped pave the way for the richmond safe injecting room.