Farmington-based Healthy Community Coalition’s mobile health unit is offering free harm reduction services through March.
Staff also offer blood pressure checks 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, Franklin Memorial Hospital.
Services are scheduled for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesdays at the following locations.
• Jan. 11, Big Apple, 380 U.S. Route 2, Wilton;
• Jan. 18, Farmington Park & Ride (next to Walgreens);
• Jan. 25, Edmund’s Market, 1185 Rangeley Road, Phillips;
• Feb. 1, Central Plaza, 72 Main St., Livermore Falls;
• Feb. 8, Big Apple in Wilton;
• Feb. 15, Farmington Park & Ride;
• Feb 22, Edmund’s Market in Phillips;
• March 1, Central Plaza in Livermore Falls;
• March 8, Big Apple in Wilton;
• March 15, Farmington Park & Ride and
•March 22, Edmund’s Market in Phillips.
Harm reduction services protect the lives of those individuals actively using drugs to help reduce the negative impacts of drug use.
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 Ashley McCarthy at 207-779-2463.
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