Inner-city Melburnians say the delay in building the city’s second safe-injecting room is costing lives.
Consultation on the report by former police commissioner Ken Lay into a second injecting room in the CBD ended this week.
The Yes In My Back Yard movement – or YIMBYs – is gaining traction as a counterpoint to business groups and others who oppose plans for the CBD facility. “We will await the findings of Ken Lay’s report, which is expected in the middle of this year,” the spokesman said. Lamb has lived in the CBD for 13 years and said “the sooner the better” for a supervised injecting room.
The most recent data collected by the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association records 309 heroin-related ambulance callouts in the City of Melbourne in the 2021-22 financial year.
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