Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced that the North Richmond safe injecting room is set to become permanent with legislation to be introduced on Tuesday.
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“What the review shows us is that there’s been more than 6,000 overdose events within that injecting facility,” he said during a media conference on Tuesday. “The modelling indicates that 63 deaths have been prevented because of the work of the North Richmond supervising injecting facility.
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