Healthy Community Coalition mobile unit stops scheduled

FARMINGTON – Healthy Community Coalition’s mobile health unit free harm reduction services have been scheduled throughout Franklin County through March.
Aside from harm reduction services, mobile unit staff also offer blood pressure checks and general health and wellness education and resources for visitors at all stops.
The hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday. The schedule is:
• 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, 380 U.S. Route 2, Wilton
• Feb. 15, Farmington Park & Ride (next to Walgreens)
• Feb 22, Edmund’s Market, 1185 Rangeley Road, Phillips
• March 1, Central Plaza, 72 Main St, Livermore Falls
• March 8, Big Apple, 380 U.S. Route 2, Wilton
• March 15, Farmington Park & Ride (next to Walgreens)
• March 22, Edmund’s Market, 1185 Rangeley Road, 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, among others.
For information, visit the Healthy Community Coalition Facebook page or call Ashley McCarthy at 207-779-2463.