North Richmond medically supervised injecting room: motions

The question put

That this house: (1) expresses its strong support for the North Richmond medically supervised injecting room (MSIR) and the life-saving services that they provide in preventing overdose deaths and in offering wraparound support and pathways to recovery; (2) notes that: (a) over 11,000 overdoses have been safely managed in the North Richmond MSIR with not a single fatality; (b) there have been over 600,000 visits to the service since it opened in 2018 with wraparound health and social supports offered to many vulnerable Victorians; (c) prior to the opening of the MSIR, North Richmond had one of the highest overdose fatality rates in Victoria; (d) the MSIR offers evidence-based and human-focused harm reduction health care that acknowledges that drug use is a health issue; and (3) affirms that drug harm reduction services should be targeted where there is the greatest need, and decisions on location should be based on evidence not politics.