There’s heated debate about a second safe injecting room – yet few are asking why use of the drug is so much higher than other cities
Jill Mellon-Robertson’s son was on the cusp of adulthood when he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Soon after that he began smoking marijuana.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup“It peaked in the mid-90s with a surge of heroin availability and a number of hotspots emerged,” he says. He suggests Victoria’s entrenched market is partly driven by Melbourne having the highest number of container shipments in Australia, leading to greater accessibility.
In Victoria, some of this group is struggling to get clean because of difficulties obtaining methadone or other opioid substitutes, according to several experts interviewed by Guardian Australia.from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s national opioid pharmacotherapy statistics shows Victoria has significantly less people receiving opioid replacement treatments compared to NSW .
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