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Inside the Southern Hemisphere’s first medically supervised injecting centre

You could walk past the first medically supervised injection centre in Australia a hundred times and not realise it’s there. Discreetly drab, with its front concealed by an opaque glass facade, it sits directly opposite Kings Cross Station on the main drag: one of the busiest hubs in Sydney (pre-lockout laws, anyway), and the centre of the heroin epidemic in the '90s.

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    1. Me too, Cat. Kate – this article is fantastic; so thorough and well-researched! I’ve shared it widely.

  1. Thank you to everyone at MSIC for saving my life and helping me when I couldn’t help myself. You always treated me like a human being.
    Today I am over 8 years clean because of your help and I have a life I could never have imagined.

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