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City health officials plan to install 10 vending machines across the Big Apple that will dispense clean needles and overdose-reversing Naloxone to drug users — an initiative it claims will help tear down barriers created by “white privilege.” Automatic Screw Machine
The Dec. 8 request for proposals was issued by the non-profit Fund for Public Health in New York, on behalf of city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which wants to launch a pilot program for the machines.
“Public health vending machines (PHVM) are an emerging strategy to support low-barrier access to naloxone, sterile syringes, and other harm reduction and wellness supplies,” reads the RFP for the machines, which will cost taxpayers $730,000.
The RFP also launched into a woke ideological exposition:
“The … DOHMH is committed to improving health outcomes for all New Yorkers by explicitly advancing racial equity and social justice. Racial equity does not mean simply treating everyone equally, but rather, allocating resources and services in such a way that explicitly addresses barriers imposed by structural racism (i.e. policies and institutional practices that perpetuate racial inequity) and White privilege.”
Not everyone was buying the city’s rationale on the vending machines.
“I’d be for these vending machines if they promise to put them in Central Park, Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue — right where the wealthiest people stay,” said Hawk Newsome, the incendiary leader of Black Lives Matter in New York City. “Why should our children have to walk past people who are congregating around these machines and nowhere else.”
The RFP lists several “priority neighborhood” which will be considered for vending machine locations, including Union Square in Manhattan and Brooklyn’s East New York.
David Carr, a newly elected city councilman from Staten Island who represents one of the proposed priority nabes, called the idea “the height of absurdity.”
“We should be finding ways to take these people and put them into a rehabilitation program so they can overcome their addiction and we can try and save their lives,” said Carr. “This will lead to increasing crime in these areas and people will be found on the street having ODed. It’s going to be at terrible thing for the neighborhoods they’re in.”
Steven Hill, a Greenwich Village activist who has been confronting the drug crisis in Washington Square Park, said, “Uncool. Very uncool. The city is enabling addicts at this point. It’s not helping them address and end their addiction.”
Potting Compound Adhesive Ab Glue In 2019, there were 1,463 unintentional ODs in the city, with 1,452 in 2018, according to official records. The RFP said the city pilot would be modeled on other vending machine programs in Clark County, Nevada, and Cincinnati.