Harm Reduction Briefing — Apr 12, 2026
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📰 News Media
- 📚 [National] Resource Center - National Harm Reduction Coalition - harmreduction.org
- 🚭 [California] Flavored tobacco bans linked to lower youth vaping in California - medicalxpress.com
- 🚭 [National] Tobacco is still one of the world’s top killers – here are the key obstacles to enacting generational smoking bans - theconversation.com
🗣️ Social Pulse
Innovation
- 💬 A crises can create big opportunities. Someone I know built a small trend-intelligence platform that observes the rising amount of fentanyl laced in drugs in London. Weekly tests, 4 boroughs. Samples Testing... - x.com
- 🧪 They conclude, “Collaborative efforts in New York led to timely identification of this emergent substance and enabled overdose prevention responses, prioritizing harm reduction services and rapid dissemination of... - bsky.app
Harm Reduction Discourse
- 🟢 New post at A Critical Discourse (link) OPIOID CRISIS CALIFORNIA: 8 MILLION+ DISTRIBUTED KITS, A HALF MILLION+ DEATHS PREVENTED WITH NALOXONE AS EMERGENCY HARM REDUCTION AGAINST LETHAL EXPERT TREATMENT FAILURE It's... - x.com
- 🚫 I don't care, have you seen the downtown east side of Vancouver? What you are advocating is not working for society nor is it working for the people laying dying on the sidewalks and it's costing a fortune. What you... - x.com
🏙 City Updates
- No recent City Updates found.
📚 Academic Research
- 🧪 Emergence of Medetomidine in New York’s Illicit Drug Supply - NEJM Evidence - 2026-04-10 - doi.org
- 🚿 Considering water, sanitation, and hygiene as a valuable component of harm reduction - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-04-11 - doi.org
- 💉 Bringing Buprenorphine to the Streets: A Community Outreach Event to Expand Access to Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder - 2026-04-12 - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
State Laws
💸 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
📣 Activism
- No activism updates found.
Update Notes
April 11, 2026 (#016bbc3) — Improve resilience of process scanning city council ordinances. Adding fix to prevent manually-featured stories from re-featuring. News Section: adding Slate, Public (first of more oppositional sources), filtering out routine state data updates on KFF, better filtering out sensational stories about fentanyl poisoning. Fixing issue leading to repeat features in Law and Policy and Activism sections. I love feedback and requests – contact@christianarthur.tech
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