Drug overdose deaths spark plea for premier to make good on safe injecting room promise

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Drug overdose deaths spark plea for premier to make good on safe injecting room promise
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Victoria's peak medical bodies and unions say more than 40 people have died from overdoses in Melbourne's CBD in the three years since another medically supervised injecting room was announced.

abc.net.au/news/victorian-medical-bodies-safe-injecting-room-letter-melbourne/102897274Almost 20 of Victoria's peak medical bodies and unions are calling on Premier Daniel Andrews to urgently open a supervised injecting room in Melbourne's CBD.

"It has now been three years since you announced your policy and too many people are no longer with us."But a Victorian government spokesperson said it was "taking the time to get it right". Mr Lay's final report was given to the Mental Health Minister Gabrielle Williams in May but it has not been released publicly.

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