September 5, 2026 — 1:00pm
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A plan to install a life-saving medicine dispenser near Melbourne’s safe injecting room has been scrapped after the local mayor claimed it would encourage drug use on the street rather than inside the medically supervised centre.
The Victorian government is investigating locations for a free naloxone dispensing machine in the City of Yarra, as part of a statewide trial to make the vital medication – which can temporarily reverse an opioid overdose – more accessible.
Yarra Mayor Stephen Jolly wrote a letter to…
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