Ice Injecting Room Richmond

The age reported on tuesday that visitors to the new north richmond centre would be allowed to use ice.

Ice injecting room richmond.

Up to three grams of heroin or ice will be allowed into the new injecting centre. It opened in june 2018 for an 18 month trial and has recorded more than 60 000 visits and managed more than 1 800. Steve has been visiting the injecting room most days since it quietly opened on june 30 last year. That is a massive amount of the drug neil said.

A new safe injecting room in inner melbourne which will assist users of ice and other drugs including heroin will bring more trouble to the drug riddled area some locals fear. Today however we learn addicts will be allowed to use the drug ice at north richmond s new safe injecting room in a backflip neil mitchell has described as madness. The service was established for an initial two year trial period which will be extended for a further three years based on the evidence gathered in the initial period. State health department research has revealed that north richmond public housing residents are unhappy with having the supervised injection room in their area and next to a primary school.

North richmond has been the hub of victoria s heroin trade for two decades and a safe injecting room was recommended by the coroner after a spate of drug related deaths in the area. In late 2017 labor announced it would trial a medically supervised injecting room at the north richmond community health centre after decades of policy flip flops on the deeply divisive issue. Minister and gps reassure residents about allowing ice in melbourne safe injecting room the victorian government s decision to allow the use of ice in the north richmond safe injecting facility was made with advice from police addiction experts and frontline first responders mental health minister martin foley said. North richmond community health centre has a medically supervised injecting room.

They say more than 60 per cent of crooks caught there including drug dealers come from outside richmond.