A mobile site will be launched from December and visit up to 10 festivals across two summers,and a fixed site in a club district in Melbourne will open in the middle of next year.
After a spate of overdoses at music festivals,state cabinet has approved a push from Premier Jacinta Allan to trial pill testing.
Just one in 12 people found in possession of a small quantity of drugs have been diverted away from the courts during the first three months of a harm-reduction scheme.
In the US,where obtaining cannabis is as easy as ordering Uber Eats,Joe Biden hopes relaxing federal drug laws will help him win young and black votes.
A proposal for a year-long pill-testing trial in Victoria will be considered by cabinet after Premier Jacinta Allan called overdoses of teens at festivals an “unimaginable” horror.
The proposed 12-month trial would likely include mobile teams at music festivals,where patrons could have their illicit drugs tested and receive harm reduction advice.
Documents show new operators plan to cut HIV testing and nurse educator for clients at the North Richmond facility,used by hundreds of people each day.
A treatment centre helping those dependent on benzodiazepines such as Xanax and Valium will be forced to cut its clinician numbers from 10 to three when funding runs out.
In one laneway,people sip wine at a table under a heater. In another,someone is crouched behind a bin on the hard ground ready to inject. Their drug of choice is illegal,and without a safe injecting room,they have nowhere else to go.
The premier abandoned Daniel Andrews’ promise to build a second safe injecting room,despite her own faction pushing strongly for it.
Premier Jacinta Allan has drawn a line under the debate about a second injecting room in Melbourne by going against an expert report to say it will never be built.