Victorian government understood to be examining charity’s building for city’s second supervised injecting room
A Salvation Army hub in Bourke Street, in Melbourne’s CBD, could become home to a controversial second supervised injecting room, but the final decision is yet to be made.
It is the hub for its Melbourne Project 614, which supports people experiencing homelessness, mental health issues, alcohol and other drug addictions and social poverty.Salvation Army major Brendan Nottle said he has seen the impacts of drug overdoses and drug-related deaths first-hand across more than two decades working in the CBD.
“Any proposed location is a matter for the Victorian government and I will leave it to them to get on with their work.” A medically supervised injecting room trial in the CBD has been under consideration for several years, after an initial site in North Richmond was opened in 2018.
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