The contents of a long-awaited report on a safe injecting room in Melbourne’s CBD can now be revealed by 9News.

Former police chief Ken Lay delivered his findings to the Victorian government almost a year ago, however until now they have been kept secret.

The report recommends the city does need its own safe injecting room, but stops short of naming an address, sources said.

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Drug user Glenn says he would use a safe injecting room if there was on in the Melbourne CBD. (9News)

Instead Lay has defined three key areas in the city where drug use and death are most prominent – and 9News visited some of the hotspots to speak to drug users.

Just 200 metres from state parliament, mates Michael and Glenn prepared methamphetamine, or ice, in a public laneway.

They said they don’t use the Richmond injecting room because it’s too far to travel.

Michael was born to a heroin-addicted mother and spent his life in foster care.

“I would say no one knows what someone is going through,” he said.

Michael and Glenn both insist they would use a safe injecting room if there was one in the city.

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Friends Michael and Glenn prepared methamphetamine, or ice in a public laneway. (9News)

“Yeah I would because they have the vein finders, I’ve got that much scar tissue,” Glenn said.

Nearby, behind Melbourne Town Hall a makeshift memorial has been set up to remember 38-year-old Danial Korver, where his mother laid flowers. Korver injected heroin in Rainbow Alley and died alone.

“I remember saying to the police woman, how do you know it’s him?” Katrina Korver said.

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Nearby, behind Melbourne Town Hall Danial Korve injected heroin in Rainbow Alley and died alone. (9News)

“She said ‘oh, we took his fingerprints’.

“Every day I cry. We all miss him.”

She visits the alley every week and claimed if the city’s promised injecting room had been built already, her son would still be alive.

“I have no doubt in my mind he would have used it,” Korver said.

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A makeshift memorial has been set up to remember 38-year-old Danial Korver, where his mother lays flowers. (9News)

The state government has had the Lay report for 10 months but is yet to make an official announcement about it.

Lay identified three city hotspots where drug use and fatal overdoses are rife:

– From the top of Bourke Street down to Swanston Street;

– The epicentre at Elizabeth and Flinders Streets; and,

-A round the Queen Victoria Market.

The report also recommended the injecting room needs an outreach service to shepherd drug users back to the facility to use safely.

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