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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Benita Kolovos and Eden Gillespie

Experts urge Victoria to provide promised CBD safe injecting room or risk further harm to vulnerable people

Daniel Andrews Victoria CBD Helen Clark Ken Lay Flinders Street Melbourne
Booths at at Melbourne’s safe injecting room
Booths at at Melbourne’s safe injecting room at the North Richmond Community Health Centre. The Andrews government has promised to establish a second facility in Melbourne’s CBD. Photograph: Luke Henriques-Gomes/The Guardian

Victoria risks falling behind the rest of the world if it fails to expand on the success of its safe injecting room in Richmond, according to the head of an international harm minimisation group.

The executive director of London-based Harm Reduction International, Naomi Burke-Shyne, is in Melbourne for the organisation’s annual conference and has called on the Andrews government to provide a promised second safe injecting facility in the city’s central business district.

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