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Earlier this year, the Polk County Health Department installed a harm reduction vending machine outside of its building. The ...
Johnson County is planning to place six vending machines containing free doses of naloxone — a medication that works to ...
Despite it being hot during the summer, the Polk County Health Department said this vending machine is temperature-controlled, meaning the Narcan inside is good and effective.
OD2A funds helped Alabama make naloxone more widely available last year. Health experts say it’s responsible for a promising ...
Vending machines throughout Denver have distributed more than 1,800 free boxes of the overdose reversal medication naloxone since they debuted in April.
Black patients presenting to the emergency department for an opioid overdose are less likely to receive outpatient referrals for opioid use disorder (OUD).
Overdoses are down 50% in Detroit, due largely to one factor. But certain barriers remain for one community to close the gap.
Although federal funding changes are challenging Gary Harm Reduction, the local organization does what it can to help those affected by addiction.
The latest data available on the Alberta government’s “substance use surveillance” dashboard shows there were 83 ...
Naloxone, the opioid overdose-reversing medication commonly known by its brand name Narcan, was central to the response of a mass overdose event in Baltimore Thursday. The city, as part of its ...
As more programs evaluate outcomes and share best practices, harm reduction vending is likely to move from innovation to ...