Groups trying to reduce overdose deaths and the spread of infectious diseases are using vending machines to get clean needles, pipes, wound care kits, Narcan and other safety supplies to drug users.

Needle exchanges provide people with drug addictions a place to turn in used needles and get new ones while working to ... Las Vegas installed three vending machines to dispense free, unused needles.

Worsening Indiana HIV outbreak blamed on dirty needles 02:12. They look just like any other vending machine, except no money is required. If someone pushes a button, a kit drops.

A report on harm reduction vending machines, prepared for the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found the machines are a cost-effective way to expand access to Narcan, needles ...

Chelsi Cheatom, program manager of Trac-B Exchange, demonstrates a needle vending machine to fight bloodborne diseases at the Southern Nevada Health District in Las Vegas, Wednesday, April 12, 2017.