Qualitative exploration of public health vending machines in young adults who misuse opioids: A promising strategy to increase naloxone access in a high risk underserved population

Naloxone prescription fills and use by patients treated for opioid use disorder by telehealth

“…Only a few patients reported that the pharmacy did not have naloxone, which is a marked improvement over previous research from 2020 to 2021 that found that over 30% of studied pharmacies did not carry naloxone ( Hill et al, 2022 ). The increase in community-based distribution of free naloxone over the past several years, including via vending machines, is a promising modality to reduce costs ( Wagner et al, 2022 ).…”

Research on drug box fault detection based on improved YoLov4

“…However, because the medicine box is made of paper, the medicine box is prone to problems such as stacking, deformation, and getting stuck in the dispensing port during the delivery to the user through the conveyor belt [4] . At present, the existing method of detecting the condition of the pill box is to detect the number of cartridges by counting the sensor, but this method cannot determine whether the drugs in the product line in the vending machine are stacked, resulting in the wrong drug delivery to the user [5][6][7][8][9][10] . Our contributions are summarized as follows:…”