Overdose Prevention and Response Vending Machines
In 2023, HIPS launched 3 harm reduction vending machines as part of a pilot program funded in part by DC Health. As of June 2024, HIPS has enrolled more than 175 participants and vended over 26,000 items. Each vending machine is also co-located with an industrial sharps bin, which has kept 8,600 used syringes out of our communities. In the fall of 2025 we added two new machines and we currently have 510 participants enrolled in the program.
Currently our three machines are located at:
If you’re wanting to register for the Overdose Prevention and Response Vending Machine program, please call our enrollment hotline at 202.779.0486 between 1-9 PM and someone will walk you through enrollment.
In 2023, HIPS launched 3 harm reduction vending machines as part of a pilot program funded in part by DC Health. As of June 2024, HIPS has enrolled more than 175 participants and vended over 26,000 items. Each vending machine is also co-located with an industrial sharps bin, which has kept 8,600 used syringes out of our communities. In the fall of 2025 we added two new machines and we currently have 510 participants enrolled in the program.
Currently our three machines are located at:
- 1525 7th St NW (Outside of Bread for the City’s Northwest Center)
- 1640 Marion Barry Ave (Outside of Bread for the City’s Southeast Center)
- 1201 Sycamore Dr SE (Outside of Whitman Walker’s Max Robinson Center)
- 3720 14th St NW (in the alley outside Lyman's Tavern)
- 1355 New York Ave NE (outside the New York Ave NE Emergency Men's Shelter)
If you’re wanting to register for the Overdose Prevention and Response Vending Machine program, please call our enrollment hotline at 202.779.0486 between 1-9 PM and someone will walk you through enrollment.