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
Useful Documents
Vic-NSW Drug Injecting Rooms – definitively enriching the drug trade, failure to meet objectives
Drug Use, Stigma, and the Proactive Contagions to Reduce Both
Bioethics Research Notes MSIC 2011
DFA Injecting Room Detailed Research
Exposing Serious Errors In Vancouver Injecting Room - Study Jan 2012
Good Samaratin & Injecting Rooms A Response To Anex Bulletin Vol 10 Ed 3
Injection Rooms In Prisons Van Gron 2013
Lancet 2011 Insite Analysis
Legal Injecting Places - a Pharmicist's view
Summary of D F A's Analysis of the MSIC
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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...
Impact: A socio-economic review of supervised drug consumption sites in Alberta (Report)
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A One-Pillar Stool Canada’s Drug Strategy is based on four pillars: prevention, enforcement, treatment and harm reduction. SCS sites speak to the issue of harm reduction. However, the way this multipronged approach is currently implemented...
Dozens arrested in drug trafficking crackdown near ‘safe’ injecting room. (No ‘Honey Pot’ effect here??)
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REPORTER @jackpayn MAY 10, 2021 Dozens of people have been arrested for drug offences as part of police crackdown near Melbourne’s controversial safe injecting room. Victoria Police charged 16 people with drug trafficking and 14...
Australia’s “injecting rooms enriching drug trade”: UN complaint Mirage News – APRIL 9, 2021
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Drug Free Australia: A formal complaint has been sent to the United Nations International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) citing overwhelming evidence that Australia’s two injecting rooms – one each in Sydney and Melbourne – are...
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...
North Richmond injecting room sparks fear among families
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19 March 2021|Media Parents of pupils at a school near Richmond’s controversial injecting room were told not to use the main entrance on Thursday after a dead body was found outside. Mums and dads say they...
Close Injecting Room – Drug Deaths Decrease. (Canada)
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Sept 1st 2020 the safe consumption site (Drug Injecting/Consumption Room) was closed in Lethbridge, Alberta. Since then, the OD mortalities have gone down.The latest numbers for Nov. are zero deaths in the city. This was claimed to...
A One-Pillar Stool Policy Problem – No Drug Use Exiting Strategies that undermine Other Key Policy Pillars.
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(excerpts from Impact: A socio-economic review of supervised consumption sites in Alberta, March 2020) Canada’s Drug Strategy is based on four pillars: prevention, enforcement, treatment and harm reduction. Supervised Consumption Sites (SCS) speak to the issue...
Crime rate is up around the injecting room
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26 August 2019|RESEARCH The residents live it and know it, the community know it and now the Police confirm it! Drug Offences Up, Crime is Up, Stalking, Harassment & Threatening Behavior is up in Richmond...
‘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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Interactive Data Site
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.
