Collingwood chosen as location for state’s first sobering-up centre

Danny Jeffcote, cohealth’s alcohol and drug outreach leader, said the new service would use a combination of street-based outreach workers, mobile vans and the sobering-up centre to improve people’s health and reduce the burden on police and other emergency services.

“This is about changing the way that we as a community respond to public drunkenness and understanding that people who are highly intoxicated need to be kept safe, not arrested and locked up,” he said.

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