‘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 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.
“We had to try and get the toilet door open, and the person was blue, clearly hypoxic and had stopped breathing altogether.
“They had a belt around their arm, and there was an uncapped needle in there somewhere, all the while, we’re trying to get Narcan into them.”
