Sydney Safe Injecting Room Statistics

Msics are also referred to as supervised injecting facilities drug consumption rooms injecting rooms or safe injecting facilities.

Sydney safe injecting room statistics. It s my personal opinion a safe injecting room can t come quick enough safer for patients and safer for us. Why australia needs more supervised injecting centres. The sydney morning herald. Simply the msic saves lives uniting msic client the uniting medically supervised injecting centre uniting msic is a compassionate and practical health service that seeks to connect with people who inject drugs and welcome them in a non judgemental way.

Alex mica paramedic yes. Research by the university of sydney into the safety of the uniting medically supervised injecting centre has found that more than 1 million injection events have occurred with no fatalities. We all know there have been numerous deaths but let s not forget the numerous patients who end up with acquired brain injuries requiring long term care. These client statistics show that the sydney msic has continued to reach long term high frequency injecting drug users idu who are highly socially marginalised and likely to inject drugs in public settings.

The opening of the new centre means that australia will have three msics nationally including the location in kings cross sydney which opened in 2001. Sydney earlier this week the uniting. North richmond community health where the facility is housed sits within the so called rectangle of death where as many as 20 of all victorian heroin overdose deaths occur. This means that if someone overdoses in the room a staff member can respond immediately.

Safe injecting rooms save lives. In 2015 heroin only made up 41 of all injections. A medically supervised injecting room is a hygienic place where people can inject drugs in a supervised health setting. Dr nico clark medical director of north richmond s safe injecting room takes newsgp through the facility as it approaches its sixth month of operation.

Uniting medically supervised injecting centre without this place i would be dead. Data an estimated 191 673 public injections were averted by the presence of the msic i e. Amphetamines which includes methamphetamines or ice made up 18 of all injections. The medically supervised injecting centre in kings cross sydney report a mix of drug types used in the facility.

A safe injecting room. It s that simple and profound explains dr marianne jauncey. Drug users used to shoot up in laneways at kings cross until an injecting room was set up in a nearby church premises.