SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A "Harm Reduction Vending Machine" as it's called, has been installed in the lobby of the Edwin M. Lee Apartments in San Francisco. It's an affordable housing community in ...

Las Vegas is betting on a new approach to combat rising heroin and HIV rates: vending machines of clean needles. But the syringe exchange vending machines, a first in the United States, aren't open to ...

To use the machines, users will need to register with Trac-B Exchange at which point they will be given a card and a unique code. Vending machines dispensing free clean syringes will be positioned in ...

With reports by the Center for Disease Control showing the number of heroin-related overdose deaths quadrupling between 2002 and 2013, drug treatment centers are looking to alternative methods that ...

Three Las Vegas vending machines will now dispense clean needles to drug users. The machines will be available for use by the end of May in centers around Las Vegas. It is part of a joint effort ...