DC Health announced the launch of harm reduction vending machines throughout the city. The free vending machines offer Narcan, the naloxone nasal spray that can reverse opioid overdoses.
FMCS partnered with Fire and EMS to place the machines in specific locations. “Our strategy was to approach the fire department and implement through that relationship because they are in highly visible areas, we can set the machines outside,” Wood says. Fire and EMS also respond to calls of opioid overdoses: “They have a bird’s eye view of the opioid crisis in the District,” Wood says.
The other organization to receive a DC Health grant, HIPS, has placed one vending machine at Whitman Walker Health Center and has plans to add two more machines to other locations. López also says that people who use drugs are often thought of outside community. “Oftentimes, they experience criminalization that doesn’t allow them to feel safe utilizing traditional modalities of care,” she says. HIPS hopes the machine helps normalize community members caring for one another, with someone obtaining Narcan from a machine for a neighbor, friend, or family member in need.
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