There's no denying it: this kind of intervention saves lives.
"Our thought process was why not here, why not us, why not Cincinnati," Arendt said. "Just because this hasn’t been done in the U.S. doesn’t mean it can’t be done in the US, so let’s bring it here and show that this is not just something that works in Europe, but this is something that works here."
The vending machine does require some small hurdles to use. In order to access the vending machine's code input, clients had to call Caracole — implying the need for a phone, which some people might not have access to — to enroll in the program. The codes are good for 90 days, at which point if they want to regain access to the machine, they have to reenroll.
The press release notes that even as overdose deaths increased by 15 percent nationwide in 2021, they actually decreased by 10 percent in that time period in Hamilton County, the county where Cincinnati is located. While Arendt cautions that there's no way to attribute that definitively to the introduction of the easily-accessible naloxone and fentanyl testing resources, he believes it did contribute.
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