Addiction workers back push for more Victorian safe injecting rooms in Melbourne suburbs

 Drug rehabilitation services have backed a push from crossbench MP Fiona Patten for three more safe injecting rooms in Melbourne's suburbs.

Ms Patten, who is an Upper House MP and the leader of the Reason Party, suggested the new sites be set up at St Kilda, Footscray and Dandenong.

They would take the state's safe injecting facilities to five, including the site that has run at North Richmond since 2018 and another planned for Melbourne's CBD near the Queen Victoria Market.

Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-11/safe-injecting-rooms-push-for-melbourne-suburbs/100130336




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