Harm Reduction Briefing — Apr 25, 2026
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📰 News Media
- 🍃 [Duluth, MN] D.C. Memo: Teetering hemp industry hopes for farm bill win - minnpost.com
- 💊 [National] Trump turns over new leaf in GOP drug policy with marijuana, psychedelics orders - thehill.com
- 🧠 [National] STAT+: FDA to speed up review of three psychedelics as mental health treatments - statnews.com
- ⚖️ [National] After years of waiting, many opioid victims will be shut out of Purdue settlement - salon.com
- 💉 [National] A Decade of Overdose Crisis in British Columbia - Filter - filtermag.org
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
Innovation
- 📊 📊 New tool alert! The CDC's Clinical Drug Testing Dashboard (in partnership with Millennium Health) offers quarterly data on drug trends to help communities combat overdoses. 💙 🔗 (link) #OverdosePrevention... - @NASTAD on X
- 🧪 👉️ What you can actually do: ✅️ Assume any non-pharmaceutical supply may contain adulterants, regardless of what it looks like or who it came from ✅️ Always test. Fentanyl test strips, xylazine test strips, and... - @BunkPolice on X
Harm Reduction Discourse
- 🟢 medications like naloxone, so overdoses don’t have to become fatalities. It also strengthens oversight to prevent overprescribing and shutting down the pipeline of illegal opioids coming into our communities and... - @GovernorLamb on X
- 🚫 In 2011 David Eby used Strategic Litigation to make sure 18,000 plus people in British Columbia were Killed Via Harm reduction / supervised consumption sites - @VanCityVice on X
🏙 City Updates
- 📧 - [Minneapolis, Minnesota] - April 24, 2026 - April Edition of Public Health Matters - newsletter - view newsletter online for more info
- 💀 - [San Francisco, CA] - April 24, 2026 - Fatal Overdose Involving Novel Synthetic Opioids - sf.gov
📚 Academic Research
- 🧠 Liberatory Harm Reduction on the Abolitionist Horizon - Contemporary Drug Problems - 2026-04-24 - doi.org
- 💊 Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on initiations of opioid agonist therapy in Ontario: A population-based interrupted time series analysis - International Journal of Drug Policy - 2026-04-23 - doi.org
- 🧪 Willingness to use a mobile syringe service program among people who inject drugs in rural Appalachia - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-04-22 - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
State Laws
- 📜 [Tennessee] Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the commissioner to use existing resources to study recent innovations by neighboring states to address substance use disorder through new health insurance coverage and reimbursement methods, strategies, or models; requires the commissioner to compile the findings and any recommendations from the study into a report for transmission to the general assembly no later than December 31, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; Title 56 and Title 71. - openstates.org
- 📜 [South Dakota] reschedule the pharmaceutical composition of crystalline polymorph psilocybin in a drug product approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a Schedule IV 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
- 🩺 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Active and upcoming funding opportunities (RWJF) — Health equity research and initiatives - Expected: TBA
- 💉 AIDS United - Harm Reduction Futures Fund - Expected: TBA
📣 Activism
Update Notes
April 23, 2026 (#85e0aa7) — Fix preview news finalization staging I love feedback and requests – contact@christianarthur.tech
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