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.

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.

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 ...

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. ...

The city’s new anti-drug vending machine, which offers free crack pipes and other items in Brooklyn, was cleaned out by local addicts overnight, with one drug user telling The Post, “I … ...

Two crack pipe vending machines have been installed in a Vancouver neighbourhood. The machines dispense Pyrex crack pipes for just 25 cents each (about 14p), CTV News reveals. Existing drug ...

The crack pipe vending machine sounds like a bad joke... but it's apparently a real concept that just debuted in Canada. Canadian Non-Profit Debuts The Country’s First Crack Pipe Vending Machine ...

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 ...

Kailin See, director of the Drug Users Resource Center, stands next to the newly added crack pipe vending machine.(PORTLAND HOTEL SOCIETY) In an attempt to prevent the spread of disease, a ...