A key Victorian crossbench MP wants three new safe injecting rooms in areas of Melbourne with high levels of drug use.
Reason Party MP Fiona Patten will call on the government to set up centres in St Kilda, Footscray, and Dandenong.
"People are injecting in our streets, on our front lawns, and they are dying - we need to do something," she told AAP.
"We are seeing overdoses in those areas similar to what we were seeing in North Richmond," she said.
Melbourne's existing safe injecting centre at North Richmond has been controversial due to its proximity to a school.
The government is looking at setting up a second centre near the Queen Victoria market.
Under Ms Patten's plan, the new centres would also have the capacity to carry out pill testing.
She says there have been calls from residents in St Kilda, Footscray, and Dandenong to set up facilities.
Ms Patten is currently in New Zealand to talk to local MPs, who are currently considering safe injecting rooms.
