Visitors and staff of the Middlesex Jail & House of Correction can now access the medication anonymously, and for free.
The Middlesex Sheriff’s Office has just become the first in the state of Massachusetts to install a naloxone vending machine, Sheriff Peter J. Koutoujian announced Thursday.
The machine was installed at the Middlesex Jail & House of Correction in Billerica, making the opioid overdose reversal medication free to all visitors and staff of the facility. More than 25,000 visits have been processed at the facility in the past two years.
The initiative meets a need for overdose-related care in Massachusetts, the sheriff said…