Outdoor naloxone vending machine installed in Downtown Pittsburgh
The Allegheny Co. Health Department said the machine along Smithfield Street will help expand free access to the life-saving medication.
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The Allegheny Co. Health Department said the machine along Smithfield Street will help expand free access to the life-saving medication.
A recent dip in overdose deaths has been credited in part to wider naloxone access.
Saturday is International Overdose Awareness Day.
The growing calls for naloxone in schools are a response to increasing overdose deaths in young people.
An effort to destigmatize the use of overdose reversal drugs that started as a pilot in two West Virginia counties has expanded to all thirteen states in Appalachia this year.
