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…
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INTRODUCTIONLaws making public drunkenness an offence have been repealed in most English-speaking countries and most states of Australia, although not in Queensland and Victoria.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…
Know anyone who would like to participate in a focus group around the experience of public drunkenness? Clients or people you know who have experienced being drunk in public in Victoria, are aged 18+ and able to participate in a focus group on Monday 20th…
