March 2021|Media, Research<\/p>\n
Neil Mitchel of 3aw believes that the injecting room is \u201coff the rails\u201d and should be moved as it is \u201cputting the lives of addicts ahead of the lives of residents and kids.\u201d<\/p>\n
But what is more concerning is his interview with the Secretary of Victorian ambulance union Danny Hill. In Danny Hills interview he said many falsehoods and repeated misinformation.<\/p>\n
At the start of the interview which you can listen to in the address below, he stated that \u201cPreviously we had around 30 deaths in the space of a year in that block and we haven\u2019t had one since.\u201d When questioned about the person who unfortunately died on Thursday he said that \u201cI don\u2019t know the circumstances of yesterday\u201d<\/p>\n
Eventually after more cross examination he admitted that he meant that there were \u201cNo deaths in the room\u201d<\/p>\n
Neil Mitchel asked if there had been any deaths in the area, and he replied \u201cLook I don\u2019t know. But um, there\u2019s none that I um, \u2026that would be the first one, um, that I\u2019ve heard of since the centre has been open.\u201d And that \u201cWe had many many more bodies in the streets prior to this centre being opened\u201d<\/p>\n
he continued to say that \u201cIn the Richmond area the coroner found that there was about 30 [deaths] that went on over the space of a year in a three or four block radius.\u201d<\/p>\n
But let\u2019s get to the facts.<\/p>\n
The coroner did not say that there were 30 deaths in a three or four block area (which has consistently been misquoted), but rather that in the entire City of Yarra there were 25 deaths in 2018, 16 in 2017, 20 in 2016, 19 in 2015 and 11 in 2014. No square block of area was ever mentioned. This is data from the entire City of Yarra which includes Abbotsford, Collingwood, Carlton, Clifton Hill, Cremorne, Burnley and Fitzroy.<\/p>\n
Secondly, the review report showed that whilst in the years before the injection centre, the City of Yarra averaged 19 heroin related deaths per year, in the first 15 months of the injecting rooms operation, the City of Yarra has had 27 deaths, or at a slightly increased rate of 21.6 per year. That\u2019s right, the City of Yarra has seen a greater number of heroin related deaths since the injecting room has been operating.<\/p>\n
How the Secretary of Victorian ambulance union Danny Hill remarkably is unaware of this is startling. His falsehood of \u201cmany many more bodies\u201d beforehand is clearly wrong, misleading, and outright deceitful.<\/p>\n
Even if we look at the number of heroin related deaths within 1km of the injecting room, the review panel report shows that prior to the injecting rooms operation there was on average 10.6 deaths per year. Since the rooms operation the death rate within 1km of the injecting room has been at a rate of 12.8 deaths per year, or a 20% increase.<\/p>\n
There wasn\u2019t many many more deaths before. In fact the complete opposite. The number of heroin related deaths in City of Yarra and North Richmond has increased.<\/p>\n
Perhaps Secretary of Victorian ambulance union Danny Hill should get his facts right and his memory sorted before he tries again to mislead the public.<\/p>\n
Feel free to email Neil Mitchel and also educate Danny Hills here in the links shown below:<\/p>\n
Neil Mitchel: Interview: <\/a>https:\/\/www.3aw.com.au\/what-neil-mitchell-wants-to-see-happen-to-the-off-the-rails-richmond-drug-injecting-room\/<\/a><\/p>\n Danny Hills <\/a>https:\/\/mracgroup.com\/blog\/f\/injecting-room-off-the-rails<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 2021|Media, Research Neil Mitchel of 3aw believes that the injecting room is \u201coff the rails\u201d and should be moved as it is \u201cputting the lives of addicts ahead of the lives of residents and kids.\u201d But what is more concerning is his interview with the Secretary of Victorian ambulance union Danny Hill. In Danny […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-injecting-room"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
email: <\/a>nmitchell@3aw.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n
email: <\/a>danny.hill@vau.org.au<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n