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Feasibility of a DCR in the ACT would be enhanced through a focus on people experiencing multiple and complex needs and who are consuming a range of drugs by varied routes of administration. The stakeholders we interviewed believed that public drug use was low and decreasing over time, in part due to the dispersion of public housing stock across the ACT resulting in decentralised-and therefore less visible-drug use hotspots. Drug Consumption Rooms (DCR) have been established in various countries around the world since the 1980s; in 2019 there were in excess of 119 facilities operating in 13 countries [1]. In 1999, the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Legislative Assembly passed the I Supervised Injecting Place Trial Act 1999 i, which outlined a plan for the trial of a facility in Civic, the central business district of Canberra.[Extracted from the article]

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