Nevada will shortly be rolling out the nation’s first clean needle vending machines for injection drug addicts.
The kits include 10 syringes and a disposal unit, as well as wound cleaning supplies and other items. Some find this abhorrent and enabling, others see it as necessary and compassionate harm reduction. We discuss both sides, LIVE from Sin City itself!
Here’s a short article on the rise of the machines.
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Needle vending machines for addicts? Viva Las Vegas?!?
Needle vending machines for addicts? Viva Las Vegas?!? #IncidentReport LIVE: Harm Reduction, Son!
Posted by ZDoggMD on Saturday, April 15, 2017
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