In Brownsville, the city’s latest experiment in harm reduction has already stopped overdoses.
, the nonprofit that operates it says it’s already intervened in more than 850 overdoses since opening. By installing naloxone vending machines, the city hopes to make getting help even easier.
Since 2021, Costello has helped place 35 machines and counting throughout Michigan, funded by public and private grants. They’re placed in jails as well as public sites, where they’re operated by local community groups. Just a few weeks ago, a Wayne State pharmacy student used a dose of Narcan he’d gotten from a vending machine to. But it’s difficult to track exactly how well the machines are working.
The vending machine’s most controversial item is a safer-smoking kit, which includes a clean crack pipe, a mouthpiece, and lip balm. Its purpose is to prevent infections and burns “so people don’t get horrific blisters on their face if they’re smoking,” Linn-Walton says. But critics have seized on it as yet more evidence of New York City’s lawlessness.
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