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📰 News Media

• 🌿 [Michigan] Cannabis sales and use are high in Michigan – but federal law means research lags behind - theconversation.com
• 🍄 [Philadelphia (Bryn Mawr area), PA] Some Philadelphia-area smoke shops sell unregulated psychedelics that often mislead customers - inquirer.com
• 📉 [National] Historic Drop in Overdose Deaths Has Slowed by More Than Half ... - filtermag.org
• 🚭 [National] Will the CDC Finally Abandon the Damaging Term “EVALI”? - filtermag.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🚰 Look again! 👀 This isn’t your average vending machine. It’s designed by our Hayes Innovation Prize awardee Roxanne Anderson, who came up with the concept to dispense lifesaving resources like naloxone which is used... - x.com
• 🧪 (NYSE: $LH ) @Labcorp just launched an FDA‑cleared rapid fentanyl urine test that delivers results in 10 minutes—aimed squarely at ERs, hospitals and clinics treating suspected overdoses when every second counts.... - x.com

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🟢 Saving lives is already covered by NHC HHS w/Narcan & Clean Needles programs w/Pharmacies, et al. (link) Time to assist the FARMERS if we plan on continuing to eat. - x.com
• 🟢 Naloxone is a lifesaving medication that can reverse an opioid overdose. This PSA breaks down what it is and why it matters. Learn it. Carry it. Save a life. #NaloxoneAwarenessDay #SaveALife - x.com

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 🚻 Intention to Initiate Harm Reduction Vending Machine Use Among People Who Use Drugs: A Cross-Sectional Study of Prevalence and Correlates - Health Promotion Practice - 2026-04-17 - doi.org
• 🧠 Stress first aid for the harm reduction workforce: pilot test results of an occupational stress intervention - BMC Public Health - 2026-04-16 - doi.org
• 🧪 Slow Dissociation of Nitazenes from the μ-Opioid Receptor Underlies the Challenge of Overdose Reversal - 2026-04-16 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

State Laws

• 📜 [Tennessee] Controlled Substances - As introduced, authorizes additional healthcare providers to directly administer buprenorphine mono or buprenorphine without the use of naloxone; adds that prescribing a buprenorphine product to nursing mother or prescribing an injectable mono product does not restrict certain healthcare providers from prescribing a buprenorphine product for the treatment of opioid use disorder without naloxone. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 11. - openstates.org
• 📜 [Alabama] Urging the State Committee of Public Health to review and consider adding the novel synthetic opioid N-Propionitrile Chlorphine as a Schedule I controlled substance - 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

• 💉 AIDS United - Harm Reduction Futures Fund - Harm Reduction Futures Fund - AIDS United - Expected: TBA

📣 Activism

• ✉️ National Council for Mental Wellbeing - Write your senator to support CDC Injury Center funding
• ✊ Housing Not Handcuffs Campaign - Join the Housing Not Handcuffs Campaign to oppose Louisiana anti-homeless bill

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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