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📰 News Media

• 🚫 [Wheaton, IL] Wheaton eyes ban on sale of delta-8 THC, ‘gas station heroin’ and other products - chicago.suntimes.com
• 💉 [St. Paul, MN] Medicaid covers treatment for thousands of Minnesotans with substance use disorder. Is that about to change? - minnpost.com
• 💊 [National] “Don’t Let Anyone Know”: OST Stigma in Armenia’s Post-Soviet Healthcare System - talkingdrugs.org
• 🏥 [National] Medicare's blind spot: Coverage for substance use disorders falls short - chicago.suntimes.com
• 🏛️ [National] Tracking Key Mental Health and Substance Use Policy Actions Under the Trump Administration - kff.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🧪 New on (link) | Development and validation of a fentanyl quantification model for drug checking services | (link) - x.com
• 🤖 Scientists have now used an AI program to design a compound that reduced fentanyl use in addicted rats, which could one day serve as a new tool to help patients recover from opioid use disorder (link) - x.com

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🟢 DYK? Our Disease Surveillance and Control team works to detect, investigate and prevent disease. Last year, they: • Partnered with 72 community agencies • Distributed 209,082 doses of naloxone Prevention saves lives... - x.com
• 🚫 knew this was gonna be incredible journalism when i saw california law+ college kids partying+ ++narcan++ apparently we can haz a little overdose as a treat now? thrown em in the prop 1 addiction medicine... - x.com

🏙 City Updates

• 🩺 - [Detroit, MI] - April 6, 2026 - Detroit Health Department brings Public Health Week directly into Detroit neighborhoods - detroitmi.gov

📚 Academic Research

• 💊 Trends in Buprenorphine and Methadone Initiation for Opioid Use Disorder Among Patients Using Fentanyl: A Mixed-methods Analysis From an Inpatient Addiction Consult Service - Journal of Addiction Medicine - 2026-04-07 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

• No hits in Law and Policy today.

💸 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 - Expected: TBA

📣 Activism

• No activism updates found.

Update Notes

April 8, 2026 (#50d57d4) — Patching bug blocking runs. I love feedback and requests – contact@christianarthur.tech

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