Can ‘safe injecting sites’ help Australia’s homeless?

By the time he was 13, Scottie was addicted to heroin. Now 40, he has been able to wean himself off with the help of staff at a Medically Supervised Injecting Room.

Melbourne, Australia – Forty-year-old Scottie, who asks that we only use his first name, has been homeless for most of his life. “I took off when I was 13,” he says. Tall and lanky, he exudes a positivity that seems at odds with his harrowing story.