2022-23 Victorian Budget a missed opportunity: strong focus on healthcare but failure to properly fund harm reduction
Penington Institute believes the marginal investment in drug and alcohol treatment and support services in the 2022-23 Victorian State Budget is a missed opportunity that undermines Victoria’s harm minimisation response to the impact of drugs in the community. Penington Institute CEO, John Ryan said that while the investment in some new treatment initiatives in regional and rural Victoria was welcome, [...]