In 2018, in the Melbourne suburb of North Richmond, a growing heroin crisis saw the state government open Victoria's first - and still only - medically supervised injecting room.

It was designed to stem the tide of fatal overdosing and move public drug use off the street. But it was also a lightening rod of controversy and local community concern.

GUEST: Associate Professor Nico Clark, head of Addiction Medicine at Royal Melbourne Hospital, former the Medical Director of the Medically Supervised Injecting Room in North Richmond, clinical director at First Step

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