Healthy Community Coalition’s mobile health unit staff are offering free harm reduction services through Wednesday, Dec. 28.

Despite this focus, staff also offer blood pressure checks, body composition analysis and general health and wellness education and resources for visitors at all stops on the schedule, according to a news release from Jill Gray, MaineHealth, communications and public affairs manager with Franklin Memorial Hospital.

The schedule for the remainder of the year is as follows:

• Wednesday, Nov. 9, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Big Apple, 380 U.S. Route 2, Wilton;
• Wednesday, Nov. 16, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Farmington Park & Ride, next to Walgreens on Main Street;
• Wednesday, Nov. 30, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Edmund’s Market, 1185 Rangeley Road, Phillips;
• Wednesday, Dec. 7, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Central Plaza, 72 Main St., Livermore Falls;
• Wednesday, Dec. 14, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Big Apple, Wilton;
• Wednesday, Dec. 21, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Farmington Park & Ride; and
• Wednesday, Dec. 28, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Edmund’s Market.

Harm reduction services protect the lives of those individuals actively using drugs until they are ready to begin a recovery plan.

Harm reduction services offered include providing: Naloxone, an intranasal medication that can reverse an opioid overdose; hepatitis C and HIV at-home testing kits; wound care supplies; Fentanyl test strips; and safer sex supplies.

For additional information, visit the Healthy Community Coalition Facebook page or call 207-779-3136.

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