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📰 News Media

• 🏥 [Portland, Oregon] Leader resolves to rebuild after fire destroys Portland adolescent recovery campus - bizjournals.com
• 💊 [National] Federal Bill Would Roll Back Modest Progress on Methadone Access - filtermag.org
• 🌿 [National] Cannabis legalization spurs innovation, but not always in ways that benefit patients or public health - theconversation.com
• 💉 [National] Safer Drug Use Resources - National Harm Reduction Coalition - harmreduction.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🧪 Overdose deaths involving multiple substances are growing. 3 ways states can help: 1) Reduce barriers to effective medications 2) Support stimulant use disorder treatment 3) Boost access to naloxone, drug test... - x.com

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🟢 socially and culturally distant from these realities, harm reduction risks drifting from a practical response grounded in lived experience into a set of institutional narratives about what drug use is supposed to... - bsky.app
• 🟢 " Effective harm reduction depends upon proximity — proximity to people who use drugs, to street markets, to injecting cultures and to the everyday realities of risk and survival. When those designing services... - bsky.app

🏙 City Updates

• No recent City Updates found.

📚 Academic Research

• 💊 Assessing Washington State's Models to Increase Use of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder: Hub and Spoke and Low-Barrier Opioid Treatment Networks, 2015-2022 - ICPSR Data Holdings - 2026-04-13 - doi.org
• 🧪 Drug Checking Services in Latin America vs. the United States: Staff Perspectives, Program Characteristics, and Barriers to Implementation - 2026-04-13 - doi.org
• 📣 Tailoring Health Communications to Enhance Overdose Prevention Programming in Higher Education Institutions: An Implementation Science Study - Health Promotion Practice - 2026-04-13 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

State Laws

• 📜 [Virginia] Drug overdose and drug overdose deaths; VDH to develop plan for opioid overdose response. - openstates.org
• 📜 [Virginia] Parental prenatal & postnatal substance use; work group to evaluate Commonwealth's response to use. - openstates.org

💸 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

• 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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