Harm Reduction Briefing — Apr 16, 2026
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📰 News Media
- 💊 [National] Buprenorphine found to be a safe treatment for opioid addiction in pregnancy - medicalxpress.com
- [National] Prohibition’s Chemistry Problem - cato.org
🗣️ Social Pulse
Innovation
- 💉 A new study in @_Anesthesiology reveals challenges in reversing #opioid overdoses with #naloxone when powerful synthetic drugs like fentanyl and sufentanil are involved. Learn more: (link) #OpioidCrisis #PublicHealth - x.com
- 🧪 A new physics-based model from @UCSDJacobs + #UCSD #qualcomminstitute engineers led to fentanyl test strips about 100 times more sensitive than current commercial versions — offering a path to improving tests for... - x.com
Harm Reduction Discourse
- 🟢 I can hardly wait for the first time a person uses one of these instead of their naloxone in an emergency - x.com
- 🚫 At least he acknowledged that this is more than just a "housing crisis". We need extensive, mandatory, inpatient drug rehab options or these are simply an extra step in the Rinse, Repeat, Overdose cycle of the last... - x.com
🏙 City Updates
- No recent City Updates found.
📚 Academic Research
- 💉 Implementing Three-Day Methadone in a Low-Threshold Bridge Clinic: Impact of OTP Referral Pathways on Treatment Retention - 2026-04-16 - doi.org
- 🌿 Identifying an initial set of core components for perinatal cannabis use harm reduction counseling: An application of the Consensus on Relevant Elements (CORE) process - Advances in Drug and Alcohol Research - 2026-04-13 - doi.org
- 💊 WHO updates rules calling for methadone or buprenorphine for OUD - Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly - 2026-04-13 - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
State Laws
- 📜 [Kansas] Requiring school districts to provide fentanyl abuse education programs and maintain a supply of naloxone in all schools, requiring the department of education to establish guidelines for active shooter drills conducted by public and accredited nonpublic elementary and secondary schools, regulating active shooter simulations in such schools and modifying the requirements for student cohorts and achievement goals in school district at-risk student accountability plans. - openstates.org
- 📜 [Kentucky] AN ACT relating to behavioral health. - openstates.org
💸 Funding (Click for more)
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
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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