An independent review has credited Sydney's controversial heroin injecting room with saving lives, getting addicts into treatment and improving the Kings Cross area.
NSW Special Minister of State John Della Bosca today released the final report of the evaluation of the Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) trial at Kings Cross.
It found more than 500 drug overdoses had been treated without a single fatality, and there was no increase in drug-related crime or drug dealing in the area.
The evaluation was commissioned in July 1999 to independently assess the feasibility of the centre which opened amid much controversy in May 2001.
Sydney Morning Herald July 9 2003
