Items tagged with australia and drug consumption rooms
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Safe injecting room trial extended in North Richmond [05.06.2020] | Victoria will keep its supervised injecting room in North Richmond open for another three years and is set to create a second facility near Queen Vic ... |
Landmark NSW inquiry condemns ineffective drug laws and calls for decriminalisation [27.02.2020] | A New South Wales government-commissioned special inquiry into drug use has slammed the criminalisation of drug users as a “profound flaw” in the sta ... |
Melbourne's first safe injecting room, clean, sterile and 'will save lives' [29.06.2018] | Up to 300 people a day are expected to use Victoria's first medically supervised drug injecting room when it opens in the coming days. The Victorian ... |
Melbourne heroin injecting room trial gets green light [30.10.2017] | The Andrews government has approved a trial run of a safe injecting room for heroin addicts. Key upper house MP James Purcell confirmed that his vita ... |
Victorian Parliament can save lives by trialling safe injecting room [18.09.2017] | Dozens of people have fatally overdosed on heroin in the gutters, laneways and front gardens of Richmond. Not a single person has ever died in a safe ... |
Support users, don't punish them: Ex-AFP boss' radical ideas to beat the drug trade [13.06.2017] | For over half a century governments in Australia have relied heavily on law enforcement to curb the drug trade and reduce drug use. But despite huge ... |
Hysteria about drugs and harm minimisation [11.08.2016] | No matter how impressive the evidence of benefits, or how weak the evidence of serious side effects or how badly a strategy is needed, new harm reduc ... |
The safe room [01.07.2016] | With Australia struggling to curb its crisis with methamphetamine two leading drug reform campaigners, Dr Alex Wodak and Matt Noffs, embarked on a re ... |
Drug experts plan Australia's first ice smoking room despite Government opposition [29.06.2016] | Drug law reformers Matt Noffs and Dr Alex Wodak are pushing ahead with Australia's first supervised ice smoking room, in a move which directly contra ... |
The great debate that no one's talking about [03.12.2011] | Scientists, lawyers, police, social workers, doctors and directors of public prosecution are pleading for change but no political party will touch th ... |
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