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Application submitted for first permanent supervised drug consumption in Victoria

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Island Health has submitted the first of three planned applications seeking approval to set up permanent supervised drug sites in Victoria.

The application for 941 Pandora Avenue, which is located next to Our Place Society, was couriered to Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott on Monday morning.

Island Health owns the building and already provides a range of health and substance use services. The building will require extensive renovations to accommodate the new service, and the name of the facility will be the Pandora Community Health Centre.

It will be several months before the supervised drug consumption facility opens.

Island Health is still working on the other two applications for permanent drug consumption sites next to Rock Bay Landing Shelter and at Central Care Home.

There were 60 illicit drug overdose deaths in Victoria between January and November in 2016.

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