Judy Ryan knew she had to do something to help her ‘beautiful’ inner-city community. She also knew it needed a safe injecting centre
Judy Ryan’s book 'You Talk We Die' is about the grassroots campaign for Melbourne’s heroin injecting room. The facility and associated trial opened in June, 2018.Judy Ryan’s book 'You Talk We Die' is about the grassroots campaign for Melbourne’s heroin injecting room. The facility and associated trial opened in June, 2018.Last modified on Fri 17 Feb 2023 19.02 GMTell me to shut up if you need to,” Judy Ryan offers helpfully over a bowl of pho on Victoria St in inner city.
Ryan knew next to nothing about injecting centres before she launched the campaign, other than that they seemed to raise eyebrows.sisters had lost sons to heroin. Ewan died in Brisbane in 1996, aged 21; Richard in North Richmond in 2003, aged 28. Neither nephew features in her new book, You Talk, We Die short of one mention of their deaths as a way of disclosing Ryan’s personal connection.
“It’s that aching story that I really want to represent without flogging it. They’re not just people who go to the injecting room. They’re not junkies in a shooting gallery. They are people who are loved.”round here it’s possible for locals to step from the slipstream of everyday life on a sunny afternoon to suddenly watching someone overdose in the street. Residents have found people flickering on the edge of death while on the school run, the supermarket dash, watering the garden.
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