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Health staff discusses installing naloxone/fentanyl-test vending machines; committee requests locations study

3000787 · March 18, 2025
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Summary

County public-health staff described a program to place vending machines stocked with naloxone, xylazine and fentanyl test strips at no cost to the county, and the committee discussed possible locations and data considerations.

Public-health staff briefed the Health and Human Services Committee on March 18 about a vending-machine program that dispenses naloxone (Narcan), xylazine and fentanyl test strips free to users. The vendor organization, Matters, would pay for the machine, the product and site work including electrical connections and a concrete pad; the county would identify host sites.

Staff said one machine already sits outside a Columbia-Greene mental health association location…

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