A drug strategy report released this week flagged the possibility of Canberra finally getting a supervised injecting room, almost decades after legislation was passed.

Health Minister Meegan Fitzharris said feasibility work would take place over the next six months to a year, with possible locations yet to be scouted.

Former Liberal chief minister Kate Carnell and independent health minister Michael Moore pushed to get a safe injecting room off the ground in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Legislation was introduced in 1999 and later passed, but political upheaval and budgetary reasons meant it never got off the ground.

"It's absolutely overdue," Mr Moore said.

"It was introduced when I was a member of the Assembly and I left the best part of two decades ago.

"To me it's been frustrating the legislation has simply been sitting on the books stagnating."

Mr Moore said he believed another policy stopped in its tracks - the prescription of heroin - would eventually come to fruition in the ACT.

The policy - supported by Ms Carnell - was rejected by then prime minister John Howard, with the ACT needing the federal gocernment's support in order to supply the drugs.

Mr Moore said he was pleased with the current government's attitude to drug reform and harm minimisation, but on an international level the ACT was still behind.

He pointed to countries such as Switzerland which have successful prescription heroin programs that operate uncontroversially.

Ms Carnell said she was pleased to see harm minimisation back on the agenda - with the introduction of pill testing and now the consideration of the supervised injecting room.

She called for bipartisan support for the programs.

"They are proven to save lives and they are also proven not to encourage drug use," Ms Carnell said.

"I certainly believe that just like pill testing it should not be political.

"It's really just about better health outcomes."

Regarding her attempt to set up a safe injecting room, Ms Carnell said it was unfortunate politics at the time got in the way.

"They are proven to save lives and they are also proven not to encourage drug use," Ms Carnell said.

"I certainly believe, that just like pill testing, it shouldn't be political. It's really just about better health outcomes."

The report said the government would "investigate the feasibility, need, effectiveness and appropriateness of establishing a medically supervised drug consumption facility (supervised injecting facility) in the ACT".

Ms Fitzharris said the government needed to be prepared to listen to the experts and try new things when it came to harm minimisation.

When asked about a timeline for a possible facility Ms Fitzharris said she would talk to stakeholders in the lead-up to the next budget.