Victoria’s Labor Party flipped and flopped in its support of Melbourne’s first medically supervised injecting room, depending on what was politically expedient and popular at the time.
Addiction and problematic drug use is mostly a result of social disadvantage and personal trauma.
Melbourne is set to get its second safe injecting facility, but objections to them continue to overshadow the enormous public health gains made.
The recent controversy embroiling the Richmond injecting room is overshadowing its positive community impact.
Dummy text