By Jewel Topsfield, 📷 by Wayne Taylor
One of the architects of the controversial safe injecting room has called for it to prescribe a pharmaceutical opioid to drug users to reduce the illicit heroin trade in North Richmond.
Reason Party leader Fiona Patten wants the state government to extend the two year trial of the medically supervised injecting room in its current location.
However she says it should be able to supply users with hydromorphone – an opioid used to treat pain – to “break the nexus between criminal activity and drug addiction”.
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Read full article on the Sydney Morning Herald.
