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📰 News Media

• 🏥 [Portland, OR] Private equity-owned addiction treatment facilities charge 15.6% more, OHSU study finds - bizjournals.com
• 💊 [Nassau County, NY] Nassau County’s fiscal watchdog slams Bruce Blakeman over $14M in diverted opioid funds: ‘It is unconscionable’ - nypost.com
• 💊 [National] Access Under Fire: OST in Wartime Lebanon - talkingdrugs.org
• 💉 [National] Fatal drug combination sparks alert as 'rhino tranq’ spreads across US - foxnews.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🗳️ Weber County recently launched harm reduction vending machines, offering free naloxone kits, fentanyl test strips, hygiene items, safe sex supplies, and treatment and recovery resources. 🔗 Utah News Dispatch: (link) - x.com
• 📊 A live dashboard based on coroners’ reports was developed to improve data, monitoring, and medication safety. 🔗 Live Dashboard: (link) - x.com

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🟢 some programs are worse than others... the needle exchanges have been a disaster there is no evidence of success or use reduction. The prob with the naloxone - even tho it works in the moment it does save lives...... - x.com
• 🚫 Eventually, we are obliged to ask, “qui bono?” Who benefits? Certainly not the homeless. The bureaucrats benefit in a banal way by pulling down salaries. But the best-case scenario of this drug-use enabling is... - x.com

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 🏥 Staff perspectives on delivering inpatient care in a newly developed addiction medicine unit in Northern Ontario - Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention and Policy - 2026-04-03 - doi.org
• 🚬 Tobacco harm reduction for people experiencing homelessness: a qualitative study of lived experiences and service provider perspectives - Nicotine and Tobacco Research - 2026-04-03 - doi.org
• 💊 Pharmacy-level barriers to opioid overdose prevention: availability and accessibility of naloxone and buprenorphine–naloxone in high-risk Texas counties - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-04-02 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

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💸 Funding

Current

• 💸 Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA FY25 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use, Site-Based Program - Deadline: May 4, 2026
• 💸 Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention - OJJDP FY25 Opioid Affected Youth Initiative - Deadline: May 4, 2026

Future

• 🧪 AIDS United - Harm Reduction Futures Fund - Harm Reduction Futures Fund - AIDS United - Expected: TBA

📣 Activism

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Update Notes

April 3, 2026 (#2d053f5) — Working on improving precision of law and policy section I love feedback and requests – [email protected]

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