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27 Apr 2024

Saturday, 27th April, 2024, Chris Christoforou,CEO, Victorian Alcohol & Drug Association (VAADA), Second Safe Injecting Room Abandoned

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Saturday, 27th April, 2024, Chris Christoforou,CEO, Victorian Alcohol & Drug Association (VAADA), Second Safe Injecting Room Abandoned

Macca and Paul talk to Chris Christoforou CEO, Victorian Alcohol & Drug Association (VAADA), as Premier Jacinta Allan has announced that the  second safe Injecting room has been abandoned

 

Premier Jacinta Allan has declared Victoria will never get a second injecting room under her leadership, after the government failed to identify a CBD location that would not hurt the city’s shopping strips and stigmatise vulnerable drug users.

Allan abandoned the four-year-old policy on Tuesday, against the recommendations of former police commissioner Ken Lay’s report, which the government requested in 2020 when it promised to open a safe injecting room in the CBD. The government remains committed to the existing North Richmond facility, which first opened as a trial in 2018.

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/second-safe-injecting-room-abandoned-despite-report-recommending-it-20240423-p5flva.html

Photo courtesy of Chris Christoforou

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