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City’s Public Health Vending Machine Program Ends Up With Just Four Installed Out of 10 Announced

Using their pointer finger on the key pad of the harm reduction machine, a resident of East New York enters their zip code and selection.

Since last June, New York City’s four free public health vending machines have dispensed over 18,000 items —  everything from COVID tests and safe sex products to fentanyl test strips and 2,100 naloxone kits to reverse overdoses, according to the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. When the health department first announced the program […]

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