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Biden Admin Is Placing Vending Machines Filled With Drug Supplies in Rural Kentucky
Washington Free Beacon ^ | Patrick Hauf • September 7, 2022 5:00 am

Posted on 09/07/2022 6:59:18 AM PDT by Red Badger

$3.6 million project will distribute syringes to country's overdose 'epicenter'

The Biden administration is set to spend $3.6 million to deploy vending machines filled with drug supplies in rural Kentucky—an effort the Biden administration claims will reduce stigma for drug users.

The project from the National Institutes of Health was launched in August and will study the effectiveness of "harm reduction kiosks" in rural Appalachia that contain "injection equipment, naloxone, fentanyl test strips, hygiene kits, condoms, and other supplies." The vending machines allow drug users to obtain items such as syringes without interacting with a health professional, in hopes of eliminating the "stigma" that comes with visiting an in-person harm reduction facility, according to the health agency.

The White House referenced the project in an August 31 press release on its actions taken "to address addiction and the overdose epidemic." The administration has adopted a wide range of harm reduction policies, which aim to make illicit drug use safer rather than eliminate it.

The Washington Free Beacon in February reported that the Department of Health and Human Services was set to fund the distribution of crack pipes through a $30 million harm reduction grant program. The administration backed off the funding plans amid public backlash, and the New York Times reported that the uproar over plans to fund crack pipes "derailed" Biden's drug policy agenda. The White House, however, still appears willing to adopt controversial harm reduction policies—the New York Times reported in July that Biden's drug czar Dr. Rahul Gupta was supportive of legalized injection sites, which allow users to take drugs with supervision from health professionals.

The new study, which is conducted by the University of Kentucky, appears to be the first effort from the federal government to deploy harm-reduction vending machines. Harm reduction vending machines have been popularized in Canada, Australia, and other countries. A few U.S. states, including New York, Rhode Island, Ohio, and Nevada, have deployed the machines in recent years. The machines sometimes include smoking kits, which in many cases include crack pipes.

The University of Kentucky declined to comment, directing the Free Beacon‘s inquiry to the NIH. The National Institute on Drug Abuse, which heads the project at the NIH, told the Free Beacon that along with drug paraphernalia, the vending machines will include "food kits, water, socks and gloves, feminine hygiene products, wound care, and resources/guides." The agency did not respond to questions regarding the status of the kiosk program.


TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: kentucky; ky; mcconnell; warondrugs
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To: Red Badger

They continue to vote democrat years after death...


21 posted on 09/07/2022 7:16:33 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Red Badger

Socks are used to huff spray paint.


22 posted on 09/07/2022 7:24:07 AM PDT by LukeL
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To: albie

The virus was designed to take out old people.
The vax was designed to take out young people.
Crack pipe machines were designed to take out ....?


23 posted on 09/07/2022 7:24:41 AM PDT by sonova (That's what I always say sometimes.)
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To: Red Badger

How long before the local drug dealers destroy this competition?


24 posted on 09/07/2022 7:26:49 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Red Badger

Vending machines?

“Put in eight quarters if you’ve OD’d and need naloxone.”


25 posted on 09/07/2022 7:27:51 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Red Badger

They sure don’t like white people.


26 posted on 09/07/2022 7:28:00 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: LukeL
..... Some people don't wear socks...............
27 posted on 09/07/2022 7:28:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Hunter branching out for new business daddy nods.


28 posted on 09/07/2022 7:28:32 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: Red Badger

Just fill them with pure fentanyl and let nature take its course.


29 posted on 09/07/2022 7:29:19 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: T.B. Yoits

competition?

heck, they’ll be hanging around them getting new ‘customers’!...............


30 posted on 09/07/2022 7:29:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

“Shoot! A fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.”


31 posted on 09/07/2022 7:29:38 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: sonova

“Crack pipe machines were designed to take out ....?

...I think these machines will entice some to try it.


32 posted on 09/07/2022 7:36:29 AM PDT by albie
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To: Red Badger

Biden is using OUR MONEY to facilitate illicit drug use? Doesn’t that make him an accessory to [many] crimes? Certainly sounds like yet another impeachable offense. And who cares about the “stigma” associated with illicit drug use? Better to be embarrassed than dead. This is just insanity.


33 posted on 09/07/2022 7:37:13 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Red Badger

This will be as effective as handgun vending machines in big cities to minimize shootings.


34 posted on 09/07/2022 7:37:37 AM PDT by Rodm
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To: mware

Putin’s fault that American babies will be doing without those emergency shipments of foreign baby formula due to EU energy rationing mandates, of course. The Biden administration creates the problems not the solutions.


35 posted on 09/07/2022 7:39:38 AM PDT by Scram1
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To: Red Badger

Step 1: Destroy local coal economy


36 posted on 09/07/2022 7:46:54 AM PDT by Poison Pill
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To: Red Badger

“along with drug paraphernalia, the vending machines will include “food kits, water, socks and gloves, feminine hygiene products...”

Are they going to charge for the products or just push a button and take what you want?

Because drug addicts would never just empty out the inventory to resell all those items... nah, that would never happen!


37 posted on 09/07/2022 7:55:26 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: sonova

“Crack pipe machines were designed to take out ....?”

Hunter Biden?


38 posted on 09/07/2022 7:56:45 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
”Doesn’t Kentucky’s Governor have something to say about this?”

No, he’s a democrat.

39 posted on 09/07/2022 8:01:17 AM PDT by Flag_This
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To: Red Badger
"Biden Admin Is Placing Vending Machines Filled With Drug Supplies in Rural Kentucky"

The misAdministration is releasing their innermost Mengeles, Kevorkians and Faucis.
40 posted on 09/07/2022 8:05:04 AM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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