A WESTERN suburbs paramedic who attended three overdoses in Sunshine within hours earlier this year supports the introduction of legal injection centres.
Louise Creasey, who has been based in the Hillside and Caroline Springs area for five years, said such a move would make the streets safer.
“I don’t condone drug use in any way, but it would make the community safer to get it away from children with no syringes left on the ground,” she said.
A HealthWest partnership report released yesterday found Maribyrnong and Brimbank recorded the third-and fourth-highest number of heroin overdoses requiring an ambulance in Victoria.
In 2011-12, Maribyrnong and Brimbank recorded 190 and 178 cases, respectively.
“It happens in car parks, at train stations, in school yards,’’ Ms Creasey said.
“I’ve had teenagers approach me for sterile needles – that’s how desperate they are.
“We were fuelling up at a service station on the Melton Highway at Hillside and they came up and asked me.”
