With the vending machines, drug users can purchase as many Pyrex crack pipes as they need for $0.25 each – a measure experts hope will curb rates of diseases spread by shared drug paraphernalia.

The Portland Hotel Society has been operating two of the machines — which dispense Pyrex crack pipes in exchange for just $0.25 – in the Washington Market and the PHS’s Drug Users Resource ...

Crack pipe vending machines in Vancouver sell Pyrex pipes for 25 cents, to reduce disease transmission between users with cut lips from cracked pipes. Top News U.S. News ...

She said people who smoke crack or meth can burn their lips and leave blood — and potentially viruses — on their pipes. Sharing the devices heightens the chance of spreading disease, she said.

In Vancouver you can now purchase a crack pipe from a vending machine — an innovation that public health advocates say will save lives and ... and dispense Pyrex glass pipes for 25 cents. ...

CTV News reports that there are two machines at Portland Hotel Society's Drug Users Resource Centre which give out the Pyrex devices for a mere 25 cents apiece. According to DURC director Kailin ...

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Most people probably don’t think of Corning as a crime fighting company, but when it sold its Pyrex brand to World Kitchen in 1998, the company accidentally made the illegal manufacture of crack ...

Misleading ‘crack pipes’ uproar shows enduring stigma against drug users, Chicago health groups say John Keilman Chicago Tribune Feb 22, 2022 ...

CHICAGO -- The big purple truck that delivers health supplies to drug users in Chicago’s suburbs carries more than 100 items — everything from syringes and condoms to snacks and ...