Vic-NSW Drug Injecting Rooms – definitively enriching the drug trade, failure to meet objectives
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A One-Pillar Stool Policy Problem – No Drug Use Exiting Strategies that undermine Other Key Policy Pillars.
(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 [Drug] Consumption Sites (SCS) speak to the issue of harm reduction. However, the way this multipronged approach is currently implemented in Alberta, harm reduction has taken precedence over
Crime rate is up around the injecting room
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 since the MSIR! Click here for Stats and details Our Community deserves better
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‘Why Injecting Rooms Must Close!’
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 in the facility each year. But the injecting room’s own clients inject more often in the streets and houses outside
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Good sense kills the not-so-safe injecting centre
15/11/17 By Professor Neil McKeganey Last week Scotland’s leading law officer, the Lord Advocate, brought a shuddering halt to a proposal from Glasgow City Council to develop a safe injecting centre in the city. Such a centre would have required a change in UK drug laws to enable individuals in possession of illegal drugs to use
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The Case For Closure – 2017 Injecting Room Update
This new data CONCLUSIVELY demonstrates the researchers drew conclusions that directly contradict their own data. Download Update
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Critics hit out at Yarra Council proposal for Richmond injecting vans
May 23, 2016 11:39pm ANDREW JEFFERSON Herald Sun Gary Christian, secretary for Drug Free Australia, claims the arrival of mobile injecting vans is a desperate measure that will not change the number of overdoses or overdose deaths in the area.“Tracking of overdose deaths in the Kings Cross area from five years before the room opened
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Vic govt firm against injecting rooms 2012
View Article THE Victorian government is continuing to oppose safe injecting rooms despite the peak doctors’ lobby group campaigning for change. Australian Medical Association (AMA) Victoria president Stephen Parnis says it is time to trial safe injecting rooms in Melbourne because their use will save lives and minimise the social harm of illicit drug use.
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