The use of Class-A drugs is legal at a new health clinic in Melbourne, where up to 300 people a day are allowed to take them with medical help.
It's hoped the new "safe injection room" will help people quit and save lives.
On the surface, it looks like any other clinic, but inside its patients are encouraged to bring deadly drugs. Methamphetamine and heroin aren't just welcome; they're legal to use, with medical help.
Medical director Dr Nico Clark says if there's any need for treatment or resuscitation it's going to take place in the room.
It's people like Robert, a heroin user who shoots up on Melbourne streets three times a day, the facility caters for.
"If I was to drop I'd have no one there," he told Newshub. "Now if I was to drop into one of those injecting rooms, I'd have people on standby.
"It will save a lot of lives."
Nearly 200 people in the state of Victoria died of heroin overdoses in 2016, including 27-year-old Sam O'Donnell, whose mother, Loretta Gabriel, says the clinic will bring change.
But others in Melbourne are wary of the centre, which lies 30 seconds from a nearby school.
Police say they are concerned about the effect this has on the human body and the way people react when they're using it.
But clinicians have a different view and say it is safer there than anywhere else.
"If people are calm when they leave here, the likelihood is they'll be calm when they're out in the community," Dr Clark says.
Despite the controversy, one statistic suggests this clinic will save lives. There are more than 100 such rooms around the world, and the number of deaths from overdose is none.
Newshub.
