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OverdosePrevention Vending Machine Has Saved Lives in Cincinnati

#vendingmachine#fentanyl#opioid#cincinnati#reduction
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0:00 thank you [Music] so every now and then we like to report some pretty good news Okay so a bunch of people died at no just kidding oh it's like that there was an overdose prevention vending machine what has stopped hundreds of deaths from fentanyl in Cincinnati yeah but then what if you're like you don't have enough money for the vending machine and then you die wait how does that provide you just like narcon in it it's a vending machine that is holding testing kits right yeah Oh I thought it was like an EpiPen you're just dying from fentanyl ████ you're like I need it and then it's seven and it goes [Laughter] yeah what if it was a claw machine you could earn it you're like ████ I had a claw machine so uh from February to

0:52 November in 2021 a call center registered 637 Anonymous people for the prop uh for the program giving them an access code to the vending machine which then distributed 3360 and now toxin Doses and 10 155 fentanyl test strips located in Hamilton County Ohio people be ████ with that fentanyl huh but they do it to make sure they got fentanyl the testing objectives they do deals in front of it they're like let me see they're like dude this my barely got any fat though you get no I'm not gonna die from this it's weak ████ there are people that can ████ handle it really really yeah

1:47 stronger than that now I wonder what their dosage is that noise crazy because that ████ kills people what is fentanyl for like killing it's to make it it's to make drugs more potent for less money right but originally right you're like originally like isn't it like a medical useful oh there's Fentanyl and um epidurals like when people are about to give labor get flavor or what do you do labor gifts fentanyl is a synthetic opioid according to the diet uh fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine but yeah so it is pharmaceutical fentanyl is developed for pain management treatment of cancer Etc blah blah blah so it's just a hundred times stronger than more the strongest pain killer ever yeah damn that make you feel no pain to the end but to stop the pain you're stopping like ████ The receptors and ████ from

2:38 working so it probably stops a lot of ████ from working that's why I just meditate last time I had a ████ stomach ache it was so bad and I was like you know why it's because you thinking about this ████ too much shut the ████ up and it went away yeah I did that with a headache one time really yeah you told that ████ not until it's shut up but I just ████ I just turned on ████ uh what's his name Deepak Chopra or whatever the hell oh he's relaxing yeah yeah when you hear like a calming voice and you start focusing on other ████ yeah it's like you forget dude yeah hmm it's crazy and then you go ah ████ it came back as soon as he's done I'm like ah ████ so this vending machine is credited for the reduction in drug uh overdose deaths as well as HIV incidents um university uh wait that stops HIV no

3:30 no I think just the reduction of it uh it says it's uh oh so before you have sex with someone you gotta be like hey take this trip foreign [Laughter] they're basically describing this method as harm reduction which acknowledges that some people always have used drugs and probably always will even if they're potentially lethal in large doses uh harm reduction as University of Cincinnati press describes is a paradigm that does not support or enable drug use but instead aims to empathetically meet people where they are in their course of the drug use and help Empower them to take steps which minimize the potential hazards associated with its use that's kind of cool yeah so why not yeah and the idea of the vending machine specifically is also a a

4:21 program that um kind of like lets participants feel that you know they're far away from prying eyes or judgmental glances right because it's just your uh your relationship with that ████ machine you know what I mean yeah oh that's true nobody's looking at your ████ yeah shame free drug testing yeah that that would be the best way to do it drug testing this thing about how some 7-Elevens that are in the desert that are close to meth uh meth lab trailers they'll sell the Pyrex like uh Beaker and funnel like in a package deal whoa because I know people are buying it for that reason or the little rules like a crazy glass pipe yeah they'll be like it'll it'll just be bundled because they know that if you cook meth you buy all of those things so they'll it'll be like a 7.99 bundle and it's all the ████ you need discounts and savings I bet those mad dealers are like

5:12 man like 7-Eleven yeah there was like cool photos of it and ████ people are like how the ████ but it's like they're the dudes are just like oh people always buy these things so maybe we'll just bundle it do you think the store owners know like they're just like I think they kind of kind of know right people like to buy these in combination maybe I'll just put it as a set that's good business though isn't it well like in this in this vending machine actually uh it says uh it has naloxone which is a drug that can counteract opioid overdoses it has test strips that can test drugs like heroin that can potentially contain Fentanyl and it also has safer injection kits tourniquets and bandages oh wow so it's like all across the board like save your life the uh like if you're a heroin addict they have a doctor give it to you or something like that my trip they

6:02 administer it yeah am I tripping maybe I mean it could make sense it was like I felt like I've heard that about some place I think some place either in like Norway or the Orlando Scandinavian yeah they have one where it's like instead of getting it off the streets you can get a lower uh potent but pharmaceutical grade version and clean syringes so that so you don't spread disease yeah and you don't have to go into crime and all that they're trying to do that stuff in La too and they have shelters some of them will have shelters you can just do it right here here so it feels safer it's a safe space yeah give you some clean needles wow yeah but they do it to you they're like this is the dose you got to take I think they give you um a kit a little kit and you do it yourself because they don't want that Joy away from you yeah yeah it's like Korean it's like Korean

6:52 barbecue I want to cook the meat yeah I got two homies coming in like this and then the ladies they're like do you mind they want to do this together every time you inject me I'll inject you like ████ this is good stuff do they do weddings like that where they ████ it that's that's how they do it yeah that's how they do their bounce they're just suck it I just like the uh the kind of like uh perspective and the communication that this uh company puts out too they're saying like if you're interested in stopping we're here to help but if not we aren't going to turn you away and refuse to help we're going to work with you and help you take steps that will help keep you safe I like where he went I like the transition sentimental

7:52 you were reading it more shame yeah shame more shame no that is that is kind of jump though this is only in Cincinnati uh this is currently in Cincinnati because of a company that's out there I mean at the time the study was published clients reported 288 overdoses were reversed with a naloxone and a number which almost reached a thousand by the time this writing more than two-thirds of those who re-enrolled after their first enrollment detected fentanyl president and the drugs they were consuming um so just you know same way people are going to do it anyway but if you can get safer cleaner drugs or like have access then there's definitely going to be less deaths so with the the overturn of the overdose so basically if someone passes out and you can obviously tell it's an OD they give them something like Pulp Fiction naloxone uh is said to like counteract the opioid that like can lead to

8:42 overdoses so I'm I don't know if this has like Extreme as like there's already an overdose in place or if somebody's beginning to either yeah yeah it's like something just to have yeah or if you take it before you do the actual heroin is it like that it might be just like you can buy it in preventative cases like Benadryl before your alcohol yeah maybe kind of people do that I like Naruto drill before your alcohol I don't know what that is well I don't know if it works but like some there's certain people that go like man or Zyrtec or different things that get your you know because Asian glow or something you know people that have like the uh allergic reaction to alcohol yeah yeah so so they'll take that um you're allergic to alcohol yeah every time I drink anything I turn like beet

9:33 red I look like this ████ bag of questions which is why a lot of people take things like Zyrtec or tagameters I have no idea that was a thing oh ████ or I just don't drink maybe that's bad yeah it is because if you get Asian glow you're highly likely to have some issues with heart problems and liver problems and stuff if you drink oh ████ boring [Music]

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