Judy and Colin outline the progress of the Trial Medically Supervised Injecting Centre development and how the residents group have continued to advocate for its acceptance and successful implementation in July 2018.

Residents for Victoria Street Drug Solutions (RVSDS) is a group of City of Yarra residents from North Richmond and Abbotsford, who are directly and personally affected by the high levels of public drug taking and illicit drug dealing within the precinct. They successfully advocated for a Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) to be trialled within the Victoria Street precinct; to address the high levels of public drug taking; unacceptable rates of overdoses and fatalities; and the associated drug dealing, crime and risk to public health and safety.

To contact Residents for Victoria Street Drug Solutions, go online to vicstreetdrugsolutions.org or Facebook page victoriastreetdrugsolutions.