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A vending machine in downtown Corpus Christi now offers the opioid overdose reversal drug Narcan for free.

The machine is the first of its kind in the Coastal Bend and is located near a substance abuse recovery clinic.

Although fentanyl-related deaths have decreased in Nueces County, overall drug-related deaths are on the rise.

A drug that reverses the lethal effects of an opioid overdose is now free and available as a nasal spray through a public vending machine in downtown Corpus Christi.

The vending machine that sits at 907 Antelope St. near the South Texas Substance Abuse Recovery Services clinic is the first one in the Coastal Bend, according to Taze Vandever, the program director for Opiate Addiction Recovery Services at the clinic. Cities such as Austin and

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