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📰 News Media

• 💉 [Illinois] Illinois Bill Would Put Long-Acting OUD Meds in Prisons, Sort Of - filtermag.org
• 🌎 [National] Trump’s “Narco-Terrorism” Operations in Ecuador: A New Phase of the Donroe Doctrine? - talkingdrugs.org
• 🚬 [National] Sweden Is Now the World's First “Smoke-Free” Country - Filter - filtermag.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🧠 AI program designed a compound that reduced fentanyl use in addicted rats, could be a new tool to help patients recover from opioid abuse. (link) #PAZANGA #OpioidRecovery #healthcareTech - x.com
• 🤖 Our Digital Vending Machine located in our building on the first floor lobby, has two new Health Aids! NARCAN Spray FENTANYL Test Strips First to Know Syphilis Testing Kit Female Safer Sex Kits Male Safer Sex Kits... - x.com

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🟢 We need a serious harm reduction program in Nigeria, safe consumption site to battle this addiction. Our health system is just so bad at everything - x.com
• 🚫 .@KevinSabet and @CharlesFLehman's newest report, Supervised Consumption Sites: Ineffective and Illegal, is out now. The piece covers the disastrous impact of these sites on public health and the illegality of their... - x.com

🏙 City Updates

• 🛑 - [Chicago, IL] - April 14, 2026 - Mayor Brandon Johnson, Chicago Department Of Public Health Annouce 50% Decline In Overdose Deaths Among Black Women, Marking The Start Of Black Maternal Health Week In Chicago - chicago.gov

📚 Academic Research

• 💊 The Opioid Safety Toolkit: An interactive prescription opioid safety toolkit to increase opioid safety literacy and behaviours among people prescribed opioids for pain—a randomised controlled trial - Addiction - 2026-04-14 - doi.org
• 🧯 Estimating the Need for Naloxone Distribution from United States Emergency Departments - Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open - 2026-04-10 - doi.org
• 💊 Association of Coverage-Promoting Policies With Initiation and Discontinuation of Buprenorphine Treatment During Medicaid Unwinding - Journal of Addiction Medicine - 2026-04-14 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

State Laws

• 📜 [Virginia] Opioid antagonist; distribution program, reports. - openstates.org
• 📜 [Virginia] Drug overdose and drug overdose deaths; VDH to develop plan for opioid overdose response. - 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 - 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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