‘Nobody should face brain injury or death because of an overdose’

The medical director of Sydney's supervised injecting site Dr Marianne Jauncey says her centre saves lives, so why aren't there more of them?
Dr Marianne Jauncey.

Dr Marianne Jauncey still remembers the first drug overdose she witnessed just months into her new job at a community health service supporting sex workers, the homeless and those others on the hard margins of society.

“It was one of the most stressful things that I’ve been through,” she recalls.