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Demand grows for overdose prevention tools


Cordain Dancy, from left, Wilson Substance Prevention Coalition’s health care risk navigator, holds the door of a new naloxone and community resource vending machine as Jeff Hill, the coalition’s executive director, and Alicia Winstead Melvin, president of Moms on a Mission, stock it. Moms on a Mission is the sixth location to receive a vending machine.
Cordain Dancy, from left, Wilson Substance Prevention Coalition’s health care risk navigator, holds the door of a new naloxone and community resource vending machine as Jeff Hill, the coalition’s executive director, and Alicia Winstead Melvin, president of Moms on a Mission, stock it. Moms on a Mission is the sixth location to receive a vending machine.

Wilson County’s free naloxone and drug test strip vending machines are seeing high demand, with hundreds of lifesaving doses and test kits accessed as officials work to combat rising overdose deaths.

Officials say residents are taking advantage of free naloxone and drug testing strips at area vending machines.

“I can’t keep them stocked,” said Jeff Hill, Wilson County Substance Prevention Coalition’s executive director. “More and more people are taking them.” Olivia Wilson


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