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This story was updated to clarify that UT-Dallas was the first public university campus to install a naloxone vending machine. It was installed by Conscience Conduit, a North Texas-based nonprofit, and The Opioid Response Coalition.

The University of North Texas is among the first public colleges in Texas to get a free naloxone vending machine, and Regan Browne, director of the Recovery and Intervention Support and Education Center — called RISE — considers it a win.

Browne is new to the director’s chair at RISE, and she was among locals who attended the unveiling of a naloxone vending machine at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios , a storied Denton music venue, in June. A teen survived an overdose there in April because a quick-thinking patron knew the signs and administere

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