A Sobering Up Service (SUS) in Yarra is ensuring people who are heavily intoxicated in public are looked after by health professionals.A new trial of a Sobering Up Service (SUS) in Yarra is already showing results, supporting people in Yarra to get safely home or…
https://youtu.be/yI2dpcABJR8 An excerpt from our August 2021 forum on Law to Regulate Public Drinking. Professor Rob Moodie, Deputy Director Faculty of Health University of Melbourne touches on evidence based health approaches to public drinking, including the importance of community talking and listening to each other.…
The City of Yarra has proposed a revised local law to manage the public consumption of alcohol after a two-year process of consultation and review with stakeholders. The Yarra Drug and Health Forum has been represented on a Council convened Public Drinking Reference Group, have…
INTRODUCTIONLaws making public drunkenness an offence have been repealed in most English-speaking countries and most states of Australia, although not in Queensland and Victoria. The Premier of Victoria has committed to decriminalising public drunkenness and to developing and implementing a public health response. A public…
