Should Melbourne consider safe Injection clinics?
Yarra City Council seems to think so. Dinushi Weerakoon asks Yarra City Council Mayor Alison Clarke why she wants the Baillieu government to change its mind about building a safe injection clinic in Richmond.
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The message from advocates of safe-injecting facilities is simple - get drugs off the streets.
Are safe injecting rooms a pragmatic response to reduce needle sharing, save lives and improve users' chances of getting treatment? The issue is challenging politically, but experts have renewed their push for supervised injecting facilities.
Panorama's Phoebe Roth with the story.
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