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As overdose deaths continue to occur, more injection rooms are needed

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Advocates say more medically supervised injection rooms are needed across Melbourne as figures show overdose deaths remain near record-breaking. According to an annual report released by the Coroners Court of Victoria on Thursday, 547 Victorians suffered a fatal overdose in 2023 – three fewer than 2022, when the state recorded its deadliest deaths.

Save lives: Appeal to New South Wales Premier following overdose deaths

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The Greens fear that young people in New South Wales will continue to die of drug overdoses if the government does not begin pill testing trials together with other states before the summer. The warning follows the deaths of two people from heroin overdoses after consuming what they believed to be cocaine at a recent … Read more