Disaster NYC unveils vending machine for drug users, with free crack pipes and Narcan for ODs - shieeeeeet nigga

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New York City health officials on Monday unveiled the city's first public health vending machine, featuring free drug paraphernalia and anti-overdose meds for addicts.

The big blue box was installed in Brooklyn on Monday and will offer potentially life-saving Naloxone to drug users who have overdosed on opioids, along with instructions on how to use the drug. Instead of snacks or sodas, the vending machine also has hygiene kits and safe sex kits for anyone with a New York City ZIP code to claim.

Officials say similar machines in the U.S., Europe and Australia have demonstrated effectiveness at reducing overdose rates and the spread of infectious diseases.

"We are in the midst of an overdose crisis in our city, which is taking a fellow New Yorker from us every three hours and is a major cause of falling life expectancy in NYC," said Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan in a statement. "But we will continue to fight to keep our neighbors and loved ones alive with care, compassion and action. Public health vending machines are an innovative way to meet people where they are and to put life-saving tools like Naloxone in their hands. We’ll leave no stone unturned until we reverse the trends in opioid-related deaths in our city."

Overdose deaths in New York City are at historic highs. In 2021, there were 2,668 overdose deaths in NYC, compared with 2,103 in 2020. In 2021, 84% of overdose deaths involved an opioid. Fentanyl, a deadly synthetic opioid, was involved in 80% of all overdose deaths, according to the NYC Department of Health.

Officials said there were 1,370 confirmed overdose deaths in the first half of 2022. They estimate 2022 will be the deadliest year on record for overdoses if that trend continues.

The vending machine is designed to curb that trend by giving addicts free access to Naloxone, drug-test strips that detect fentanyl, and "Safer Smoking" kits that come with a pipe, mouthpiece and lip balm for smoking crack and crystal meth.

The machine also comes equipped with "Safer Sniffing" kits, condoms, tampons, nicotine gum and first-aid packages, according to the New York Post.

The Brooklyn vending machine is the first of four machines that will be installed in neighborhoods that data shows were hit hardest by the opioid crisis, officials said. The vending machine will be hosted by the nonprofit group Serving the Underserved (S:US).

"This public health vending machine will be a game-changer for this part of East Brooklyn. With it, we can provide free and easy access to life-saving tools that prevent overdoses, infections, and other health risks associated with substance use. The machine also provides essential items that can improve the quality of life of all New Yorkers, regardless of their income, insurance or housing status," said Perry Perlmutter, interim president and CEO at Services for the UnderServed.

"By installing machines like this one in strategic locations, we are fulfilling our commitment to reducing harm, promoting wellness, and supporting recovery for our most vulnerable communities."

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

How broke do you have to be to not afford a gas station rose?

 

[Super Hans v2]

Can't wait for someone ODing off the free Narcan

Narcan is the only shit in the machine that won't be touched, it makes druggies go from high to withdrawal inside of five minutes.

 

[Cuckoman]

Those machines will last one night before the neighborhood dregs proceed to empty them. I don't really see this getting off the ground, these machines are going to get fucked with so hard, its not even funny.

You realize that this will prove to them that the project is a success and there is a genuine need for this service.
This is how you get them to put more of these machines in the city.

 

[Tim the Tranny]

Hey does anyone else remember way back when we were assured that of course there weren’t going to be government funded crack pipes. That would be insane
I ‘member

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

The machine didn't even make it 24 hours before it was emptied:

https://nypost.com/2023/06/06/nycs-drug-themed-vending-machine-cleaned-out-of-crack-pipes-narcan-overnight/

 

[NerdShamer]

Narcan is the only shit in the machine that won't be touched, it makes druggies go from high to withdrawal inside of five minutes.

But then they can get high as often as they want with an free supply of Narcan!

And also, everything in that machine was cleaned out within an day

 

[ZazietheBeast]

So the San Francisco approach to bums and druggies. Just enable them, never do anything about them. Escape from New York is soon to become a reality.

What is the endgame for this? Hope the undesirables kill themselves off? EGS score? Some kind of mea culpa to get black votes? Are they trying to undercut the bodegas ran by the Indians that sell that shit?

All of the above. It is a deliberate tool of destabilization.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

The machine didn't even make it 24 hours before it was emptied:

https://nypost.com/2023/06/06/nycs-drug-themed-vending-machine-cleaned-out-of-crack-pipes-narcan-overnight/

Could've predicted that. Whenever you make something free for degenerates without discouraging it, everyone loses. Case in point: when I was in community college, some department put out a basket of condoms encouraging people to have safe sex.

Within a few days, there was nothing more than a note begging for the basket back.

 

[vanilla_pepsi_head]

Free syringes I would kind of understand, they're gonna reuse them regardless but if they didn't share at least they might spread less AIDS. Meds to keep HIV in check can cost as much as $10,000 per month per person if the virus becomes resistant to the first line treatments, to say nothing of the costs that start adding up once their health starts to really go to shit (recall this is a demographic that goes to the emergency room for medical care pretty much exclusively and they treat it like a hotel). So yes, I'd say syringes and condoms are a hell of a lot cheaper to at least be worth the attempt, whatever good it may do. However, crack pipes and even lip balm for crack/meth users is fucking absurd. Harm reduction in the name of public health and reducing the financial drain on public money and resources makes a kind of sense, at least in theory. But come the fuck on, don't go this far out of your way to make sure no one feels any discomfort as a result of indulging their degeneracy. These people smoke discarded cig butts all the time so anything they can catch from sharing mouthpieces doesn't even matter anymore, and they can and will freebase with pop cans and shit if they have nothing else, there's no benefit in helping them do so more efficiently.

Oh, and I'm gonna guess the fentanyl test strips are counterproductive. Bums love fentanyl, the test strips let them know who's got the good shit so they can get some for themselves. I highly, highly doubt giving these out is preventing overdoses. Oh, and the first time someone needs to be narcan'd and the doctor finds about it, they should absolutely cut off their methadone right the fuck there, but I've been told that opinion just makes me an asshole.

 

[NerdShamer]

but I've been told that opinion just makes me an asshole

Yeah, that's an good indicator that they're related to an addict. Or at the very least, they're the type of people who occcasionally gets high

 

[Ishtar]

Every drug addict should be provided fentanyl laced with rat poison.

You'll solve the problem very quickly.

 

[East_Clintwood]

I like how their solution to gun deaths is "we need less guns, make them harder for people to get", but their solution to drug deaths is "we need more drugs, make it easier for people" . If this is their solution to drugs, then why isn't the solution to gun violence free traums kits and SAPI plates in vending machines?

 

[Barry McKockner]

If I were a NYC dealer, I would have my people clean out the machine, use the test strips to show people my shit is "the good shit", and sell the crack pipes and narcan to my users on the cheap.

 

[PFM]

Free syringes I would kind of understand, they're gonna reuse them regardless but if they didn't share at least they might spread less AIDS. Meds to keep HIV in check can cost as much as $10,000 per month per person if the virus becomes resistant to the first line treatments, to say nothing of the costs that start adding up once their health starts to really go to shit (recall this is a demographic that goes to the emergency room for medical care pretty much exclusively and they treat it like a hotel). So yes, I'd say syringes and condoms are a hell of a lot cheaper to at least be worth the attempt, whatever good it may do.

"Taxpayers should have to pay for syringes and vending machines for drug addicts so the taxpayers dont have to pay for emergency room visits."

There's a flaw in your thinking the taxpayers should be paying for any of this. The lack of Darwinian selection is the reason we're in this fucking mess.

 

[Seafarer]

Could've predicted that. Whenever you make something free for degenerates without discouraging it, everyone loses. Case in point: when I was in community college, some department put out a basket of condoms encouraging people to have safe sex.

Within a few days, there was nothing more than a note begging for the basket back.

Stuff like this CAN work in high trust societies, but that’s not the case in NYC, nor any major city for that matter (i wonder why?)

 

[Damocles_Sword]

So whats to stop someone from pulling all the narcan out and just destroying it?

 

[Black Man Underwear]

gibs me dat

 

[innocent jogger]

What's that, Clown World? "Honk! Honk!" Well, ok, we can put these machines out then. I can't see any way of this not working...

 

[Male Idiot]

I can't even blame Tyrone for emptying it and selling the crack pipes. He would be stupid not to, lol.

Wypipo libtard l.

 

[vanilla_pepsi_head]

"Taxpayers should have to pay for syringes and vending machines for drug addicts so the taxpayers dont have to pay for emergency room visits."

There's a flaw in your thinking the taxpayers should be paying for any of this. The lack of Darwinian selection is the reason we're in this fucking mess.

I get it, but you'll notice I only spoke up in favor of the ideas that might reduce the number of high risk AIDS patients that some unsuspecting health care worker or cop or someone might end up catching through no fault of their own since they actually have to wrangle these people. If we just left out the naloxone kits the problem would be solving itself in real time to the point it's a non-issue.