Hydromorphone Trial Can’t Replace Second Injecting Room
Hydromorphone trial a smokescreen to distract from Labor’s outrageous decision to axe second injecting room. The Victorian Greens have called Labor’s recently announced hydromorphone trial a dangerous smokescreen, distracting from their decision to reject expert health advice and axe a second safe injecting room. Earlier this week Labor announced it wouldn’t establish a second safe […]
Rejecting a Safe Injecting Room Will Cost Lives.
Labor’s safe injecting room decision a ‘spineless captain’s call that will cost lives. The Victorian Greens have called Labor’s decision to reject a second medically supervised injecting room (MSIR) in the CBD a ‘spineless captain’s call’ that will cost countless lives. The Greens say it will leave people who are struggling with heroin addiction to […]
Report Advises Second Safe Injecting Room Needed.
Labor must heed report advice and establish second safe injecting room in Melbourne. The Victorian Greens have said people using injectable drugs will continue to die while Labor refuses to act on a report into a second safe injecting room in the CBD. While Labor has been sitting on Ken Lay’s report into a second […]
Medically Supervised Injecting Room Needed in CBD.
The Victorian Greens have thrown their support behind an open letter released today calling for a medically supervised injecting room (MSIR) to be established in Melbourne’s CBD.
North Richmond Safe Injecting Room Under Pressure.
GOVERNMENT MUST ESTABLISH MORE SAFE INJECTING ROOMS TO TAKE PRESSURE OFF NORTH RICHMOND. The Victorian Greens have welcomed today’s announcement that the Victorian Labor Government will make the medically supervised injecting room in North Richmond ongoing. However, the Greens say it’s disappointing the Government seems to be backing away from evidence-based recommendations that would make […]
Greens Push For More Safe Injecting Rooms.
The Victorian Greens will move to make it easier to establish more medically supervised injecting rooms where they are needed in Victoria, when Parliament returns this week.
