A model for a supervised injecting place (SIP) was developed for Civic in 1998-99 when this area was the centre of drug related activity in the ACT.
A site has been located for the SIP at the Moore Street health building but some members of the Supervised Drug Injection Trial Advisory Committee have expressed ongoing concerns regarding the site and the trials feasibility for Civic.
Final Report for ACT Health - James Bloggs, June 2003
A model for a supervised injecting place (SIP) was developed for Civic in 1998-99 when this area was the centre of drug related activity in the ACT. A site has been located for the SIP at the Moore Street health building but some members of the Supervised Drug Injection Trial Advisory Committee have expressed ongoing concerns regarding the site and the trials feasibility for Civic.
The Supervised Drug Injection Trial Advisory Committee is in the process of reviewing work carried out to implement a Supervised Injecting Place (SIP) and is considering options for progressing this project. After Committee members visited the medically supervised injecting centre (MSIC) operating in Sydney, concerns were raised regarding the trials feasibility for Civic. ACT Health decided that it was timely to conduct an analysis of the needs of IDUs in the current injecting drug context of the ACT.
| Download: | Analysis of IDU needs in the ACT - Final Report June 2003 (Microsoft Word Document - 127k) |
Summary/Abstract
The report, produced by Dr James Blogg, finds that injecting drug users would attend a supervised injecting place if a trial were to proceed in the ACT. It also points out that many injecting drug users who currently inject at home would attend a Supervised Injecting Place Trial.
Dr Blogg interviewed injecting drug users about three main issues:
- the priority they would place on the development of a Supervised Injecting Place Trial;
- whether injecting drug users would access a Supervised Injecting Place Trial at the Moore Street health building, and;
- whether a stand-alone or co-located model would be the most appropriate.
Dr Blogg also identified a number of other options that are available to support the needs of injecting drug users.
These include:
- installing vending machines to provide after hours access to needles and syringes;
- establishing a low threshold methadone program targeting young Indigenous people;
- a peer based naloxone distribution trial;
- a hydromorphone trial, and;
- substitution therapy for amphetamine users.
In this section:
- Annual Reports
- Dual Diagnosis
- ACT Action Plan for Mental Health Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention 2006-2008
- ACT Secondary Schools' Alcohol and Drug Survey 1999 (ASSAD)
- Calvary Audit Report (Acumen Alliance)
- Canberra Midwifery Program Demand Analysis Report
- Review of Services and Competitive Issues
- HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, Sexually Transmissible Infections Strategic Framework for the ACT 2007-2012
- Karralika redevelopment
- Nurse Practitioners in the ACT - The Framework
- Quality & safety
- Respite needs government response
- Review of Clinical Governance Arrangements at the Canberra Hospital
- ACT Health Review (Mick Reid)
- Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander on Pathology Forms
- ACT Public Health Services Quarterly Performance Report
- Aged Day Care Centre Program Review
- Canberra Hospital Research Report 2004 - 2006
- Cervical Cytology Register Statistical Report 2008
- Elective Surgery Waiting List Reduction Plan
- Indoor air quality monitoring
- Neurosurgery Service Final Report
- Patient Safety Report
- Respite Care Final Report
- Responding to the Medical Indemnity Crisis
- Tobacco Report on the National Competition Policy Review of Tobacco Legislation
