The opioid antidote Narcan and fentanyl test strips are among the items that soon will be available at six free vending machines throughout the District.
test kits and male and female condoms are among the items that soon will be available at six free vending machines throughout the District, with the aim of reducing drug overdoses.The District joins Las Vegas, Chicago, Cincinnati and Puerto Rico in deploying harm reduction vending machines to provide around-the-clock access to people who are homeless, vulnerable to opioid abuse or wary of contacting community services.
The nonprofit organization, which already runs a large-scale syringe exchange program through mobile units, will manage the fire station machines, which Fulwood Wood said will eventually dispense. Honoring Individual Power and Strength , a nonprofit organization that also offers syringe exchange and support services such as housing and substance use treatment, will operate the other three machines. Those machines will dispense syringes, officials said.
Older Black men have borne the burden of the opioid crisis. The vast majority, 85 percent, of deaths since 2017 were among Black residents. Nearly three-quarters of overdoses occurred among adults 40 to 69 years old, and one-third of victims were in their 50s, according to the chief medical examiner.
“First they go to a vending machine and get Narcan and they have a good experience with it. They find out that vending machine is sponsored by a syringe services program at the end of the block,” Kosinski said.
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