Keeping people alive through needle exchanges

By Letters to the Editor
April 20 2018 - 5:00pm

Keeping people alive and offering help

Making clean needles available for addicts is one way of minimising harm and getting help for them, health experts argue.
Making clean needles available for addicts is one way of minimising harm and getting help for them, health experts argue.

I would like to commend Uniting Ballarat on their commitment to installing a Secure Dispensing Unit in the Ballarat central business district.  This project is occurring with Ballarat Community Health’s full support and addresses a strong need to have readily available, sterile injecting equipment in the centre of our city.

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