Injecting Centres and Harm Reduction: A Cultural Shift
Dr. Marianne Jauncey (Sydney, Australia) was appointed to the position of Medical Director at the Uniting Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) in August 2008. Dr Jauncey is a Public Health Physician and has worked in the drug and alcohol field for nearly two decades.Dr Jauncey has previously worked as a drug and alcohol doctor in Kings Cross, having spent four years at the Kirketon Road Centre, where the primary focus is injecting drug users, sex workers, and youth at risk. In the following interview, she offers insight to how her work has shaped understandings of drug use and the needed services (and vice versa), and touches on a number of themes around how modern reframing of emergency response saves millions of lives.
Please see the photo gallery below for a more detailed look into the world of injecting rooms. All photos by Nigel Brunsdon.
Marianne in her office space
Drug preparation
Injecting booths
MSIC front entrance
Responding to an overdose. There are over 100 injecting rooms worldwide and there has never been a single lethal overdose in any of them.
