Mapping public injecting drug use in urban Melbourne

The risks associated with injecting drug use are determined by interactions between individual injecting behaviours and the environment' (e.g., physical, social, legislative) in which injecting occurs. Using a mixed methods approach, this project will undertake ethnographic mapping and quantitative secondary data analysis to document aspects of public injecting drug use in inner urban Melbourne. The ethnographic mapping exercise will involve neighbourhood-level observational research to examine sites of public injecting, levels of public injecting and document associated injecting practices and potential risks. Additional secondary data analysis will be undertaken to examine indicators of the impacts of public injecting, such as fatal and non-fatal overdose and impacts on public amenity.