Category: vending machine

NYC Officials Unveil Vending Machine Offering Free Narcan, Crack Pipes

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…


Feds to Spend $3.5 Million on ‘Vending Machines’ That Supply Opioids in 4 Cities

The Liberal government has announced $3.5 million in funding for vending machines that will dispense prescribed opioids to registered drug users in four cities. Darren Fisher, the parliamentary secretary to Health Minister Patty Hajdu, said in a news release on Tuesday that the vending machines will be set up at five locations: two in Vancouver and…