Drug experts plan Australia's first ice smoking room despite Government opposition

By Andy Park - ABC News

Drug law reformers Matt Noffs and Dr Alex Wodak are pushing ahead with Australia's first supervised ice smoking room, in a move which directly contradicts the NSW Government's stance on such a centre.

The planned centre in Sydney would provide clean pipes and smoking equipment and encourage contact with addiction health services, but not provide any substances to users.

"My understanding is we don't face any legal obstacles to having an inhalation room. The obstacles are all politics and crisis management," Dr Wodak told 7.30.

7.30 joined the pair as they looked at potential locations and spoke to air ventilation suppliers about the equipment needed to purify the air of toxic chemicals exhaled by several ice users smoking the drug in a confined space.

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