North Richmond Safe Injecting Room

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.

North richmond safe injecting room. The department of health and human services is coordinating a trial of a medically supervised injecting room at north richmond community health. The medically supervised injecting room at north richmond community health opened in july 2019. The victorian government is trialling a medically supervised injecting room at the north richmond community health site in north richmond melbourne. A medically supervised injecting room is a place where people can inject drugs of dependence in a supervised health setting.

The facility aims to reduce the high amount of victorian drug overdose deaths. 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. 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.

It can also provide a gateway for people who inject drugs to access other health and social. The melbourne supervised injecting room msir has hit the headlines again after reports that two individuals linked to the north richmond community health centre which houses the service had been arrested. Police said they did not allege any offences had occurred inside the safe injecting room the government said allegations against staff employed at the north richmond health service were very serious. Frustrated locals in north richmond say they ve been forced to move out of their homes after a safe injecting room was built in the area.

The city opened the medically safe injecting space north richmond community health building pictured last year the heroin rectangle is bordered by hoddle street elizabeth st victoria st and. One person was reportedly charged with drug offences and later released on bail while a second was released without charge.