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Hmmm: Las Vegas Approves Installation Of Syringe Vending Machines To Combat Opioid Addiction

Las Vegas To Install Syringe Vending Machines To Fight HIV/Opioid Addiction The government damn sure wasn’t thinking about taking these advanced measures when brothas and sistas were hooked on heroin and crack, but we digress. According to NBCNews Las Vegas aka “Sin City” has approved a program that will install syringe vending machines in order to help fight opioid addiction and HIV. But you can’t just be any ol’ geeker off the street, you gotta join the program called Trac-B Exchange. “This is a harm reduction approach,” said Chelsi Cheatom, program manager for Trac-B Exchange, in an interview with NBC Las Vegas affiliate KSNV. “People are already exchanging in these behaviors, and anytime someone’s engaging in a behavior that could cause them some potential health side effects, we want to encourage them to reduce their risk of harm.” Hopefully, for the sake of the addicts, this program works. But it looks like it could left in a million different ways. Godspeed. Image via Getty

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Hmmm: Las Vegas Approves Installation Of Syringe Vending Machines To Combat Opioid Addiction

4 Your Eyez Only: Peep The Trailer For J. Cole’s New HBO Special [Video]

‘J. Cole: 4 Your Eyez Only’ Trailer Lets You In On His Conversational Tour Of America Light-skinned Jermaine will be front-and-center on HBO primetime tonight as his titular film 4 Your Eyez Only hits the air. The short takes viewers on an adventure across the American midwest and southern region talking to folks about race, politics, white supremacy and Blackness. Check out the trailer below. If you wanna watch, make sure you’re locked into HBO at 10pm. Image via Getty

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4 Your Eyez Only: Peep The Trailer For J. Cole’s New HBO Special [Video]