By Karen Ruiz For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 03:58 BST, 11 April 2019 | Updated: 03:58 BST, 11 April 2019
View
comments
Horrified residents have complained a new community safe injecting room aimed at helping recovering heroin addicts is ruining their neighbourhood as public drug use runs rampant.
The North Richmond Community Health building in the city of Yarra, outside of Melbourne, was opened last year to provide a space where people can use drugs in a supervised environment.
But residents say the facility is turning the suburb into a 'ghetto' and claim the streets are now littered with discarded needles, vomit, and even faeces, The Herald Sun reported.
North Richmond residents have complained that a new safe injecting facility is ruining the neighbourhood as the streets have become littered with needles, vomit and faeces. Pictured above are discarded needles, syringes, and spoons used as drug paraphernalia in the streets
