Dr. Richard Healy:

Holland, England and here. In Holland, there was a consumption room, AMOC, where people could get food and they were given an identification card. If people had their personal drug supply and whatever they needed on them and they were stopped by a police officer, the police officer could not take that off them because they had the ID card. We need to have some kind of avenue that brings these two processes together. We cannot have strict prohibition and harm reduction services. It is not working, it has not worked and it is never going to work. Decriminalisation is potentially an avenue in the right direction but, as has been said, it is not really going to help with problematic drug use. What is ten doses to one person might not be ten doses to another. Decriminalisation is the next step but it has to be a step towards something more.