The injecting centre that saved Lisa’s life
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Three years ago, when Lisa Townsend walked into a medically supervised injecting centre, she had been addicted to heroin, on and off, for 25 years. The benefits of supervised injecting facilities are well established, but that centre is one of only two of its kind in Australia, and plans for a third – in Melbourne’s CBD – have provoked a backlash. Science writer Donna Lu explores how these facilities work and Townsend reveals how one of them, and the people inside it, saved her life
