BREAKING: Cohealth Central City, opposite the Queen Victoria Market, has been identified as the preferred site for Melbourne's second safe injecting room.
Victoria is set to get its second safe injecting room, opposite the Queen Victoria Market, after the government was handed a report showing the North Richmond injecting room had been overwhelmed by demand.
The state government last month received the independent review of the two-year trial of the medically supervised injecting room, which ends on June 29. It has accepted all of the report's recommendations. It had succeeded in its goal of saving lives and managing overdoses, and had also referred people to 13,000 health and social support interventions like housing, mental health and family violence supports.
The Cohealth community health service on Victoria Street offers a range of allied health services, including drug and alcohol counselling, homelessness and mental health services.
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