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NYC to install vending machines that dispense clean needles, Naloxone for drug users ‘disproportionately burdened by overdoses’

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The Post Millennial

by James Anthony

A pilot program in New York City will install 10 “public health vending machines” (PHVMs) at selected locations throughout the city for drug users who are “disproportionately burdened” by overdoses, according to a new report.

Fund for Public Health in New York, a non-profit organization, opened a request for proposals in December to install the machines that will dispense the anti-overdose drug naloxone, sterile syringes, and other “harm reduction and wellness supplies” to drug users in neighborhoods across the embattled city…

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