Injecting Rooms

Drug Injecting Rooms – not a stand-alone solution

Overall, we believe that harm reduction should only be used as part of the continuum of care rather than as a stand-alone solution. The experience of MSIRs in Australia and North America demonstrates that offering a location for people to safely inject drugs without having it actively linked to a referral system leads to even more dangerous situations, such as a high risk of overdose, higher drug use, and increased profit for drug dealers. Based on the research, we can only conclude that providing a safe location to inject drugs is not the ultimate solution. It is contradictory to offer access to drugs to only then have to intervene with naloxone to reverse overdose. The report clearly shows that MSIRs have become an environment in which drug users feel they are able to “safely” experiment with different types of drugs, leading to exponentially higher.

 

Regina Mattsson  Secretary General World Federation Against Drugs(WFAD) made to the President of the International Narcotics Control Board 2021   

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Vic-NSW Injecting Rooms – A Review

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Vic-NSW Injecting Rooms – A Review View PDF   “Injecting rooms are to health and recovery like Vaping is to the Quit campaign – both counter intuitive and counter-productive.” Overdoses – What’s Really Happening? Saving Lives – What Does the...

Injecting room: Off the Rails

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March 2021|Media, Research Neil Mitchel of 3aw believes that the injecting room is “off the rails” and should be moved as it is  “putting the lives of addicts ahead of the lives of residents and...

‘Why Injecting Rooms Must Close!’

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At best, the Sydney injecting room hosts just 5% of Kings Cross/Darlinghurst injections but accounts for a staggering 77% of all the recorded overdoses in the Kings Cross/Darlinghurst area. 400 overdoses are recorded on average...

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Introduction: Welcome to AODstats, the Victorian alcohol and drug interactive statistics and mapping webpage. 


AODstats provides information on the harms related to alcohol, illicit and pharmaceutical drug use in Victoria.

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