Despite established benefits, a proposed second facility in the city is facing fierce opposition
At the lowest point of her 25-year addiction, Lisa Townsend had nothing left. Not her children, whom she had had to give up, nor a roof over her head. For three and a half years, she slept rough in the streets of the Melbourne CBD, scraping together whatever money she could to score heroin in the city, or along Victoria Street and Lennox Street in the nearby suburb of North Richmond.
“My depression and mental health was extremely bad,” she says. “I didn’t know how to deal with it all, and using was a way for me to escape all of that.”
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