Public health officials in New York City on June 5 unveiled the city’s first “public health vending machine,” which offers everything from an overdose-reversing drug to crack pipes and fentanyl test strips.
Officials with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene welcomed the unveiling of the machine, located at 1676 Broadway in Brooklyn, just outside a supportive housing facility run by Services for the Underserved (S:US).
According to a press release from the Department of Health, the vending machine is the latest tool aimed at helping “reduce stigma and barriers to services” among drug users as part of the city’s fight to reduce the number of overdose deaths by 2025….