Why vending machines with a lifesaving drug are growing in the US

Naloxone, an overdose-reversing miracle drug', can let people with an opioid addiction walk away from a near-death experience within minutes

The police chief of the small Kentucky city of Vine Grove knew from heart-rending experience why he needed a vending machine outside his office.

Kenneth Mattingly's daughter was twice brought to the brink of death by heroin and twice pulled back by paramedics carrying an antidote, naloxone. Then Mattingly responded to an opioid overdose call early last year at which a woman saved a friend's life because she was carrying a naloxone spray, often known by its brand name Narcan.