People living in poverty or disadvantage are three times more likely to die from COVID than the wealthy.
- Adjunct Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology
Without appropriate support, it’s more likely people will break COVID restrictions, for example go to work, or gather in family groups for support.
The parliamentary inquiry into establishing an injecting room in Victoria has failed to make any recommendations. This is despite finding drug use is at crisis levels in the area.
Dependency on opioid painkillers reflects what we already know about life in the small towns of Australia - people tend to have poorer health.
Benzodiazepines are used by many people despite their associated risks and harms.
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