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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Benita Kolovos

Victoria Greens to push for greater access to safe injecting rooms with proposed bill change

Medically supervised injecting room in Melbourne.
A trial at the medically supervised injecting room in Melbourne has saved an estimated 63 lives and safely managed 6,000 overdoses since it opened in 2018. Photograph: James Ross/AAP

The Victorian Greens will introduce changes to a government bill in a push to make it easier to open more safe injecting rooms and allow greater access for the “most vulnerable and marginalised” drug users.

The government’s drugs, poisons and controlled substances amendment (medically supervised injecting centre) bill 2023, which will make the currently facility in North Richmond permanent, will be debated and voted on in the upper house when parliament resumes this week.

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