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📰 News Media

• 🏠 [National] White House Budget: No Funds for Housing, Some for ... - Filter - filtermag.org
• 💉 [National] New ‘safer opioid’ delivers pain relief without addiction risk in early tests - foxnews.com
• 🧠 [National] Psilocybin mushrooms are going mainstream, but scientific research and regulation lag behind - theconversation.com
• 📰 [Seattle, WA] Private equity firm gives Skagit County company a half-billion-dollar boost - bizjournals.com
• 📰 [TX] Turbulent Times for the Texas Hemp Industry - The Austin Chronicle - austinchronicle.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 This policy shift will kill people. This is a fact. The President and his team have been going all over the world, high-fiving themselves about drops in US overdose deaths. Anyone who has done the work for the last... - @brendanmlittle on linkedin

Innovation

• 🧠 (link) = car accident prediction machines (live prototype) (open source) (link) food and water scanning systems that detect bacteria booms (no more food poisoning or upset stomach from failures in food production,... - @graylanj on X
• 🧪 This is exactly why harm reduction and drug-checking services are more vital than ever. 🧪 If we know Carfentanil is in the Bay Area supply, we have to assume every street drug is contaminated. How do we get more... - @FinelyBrewed on X

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🟢 What are we doing wrong? “Safe supply” means 64 mg “clean” hydromorphone pills resold as “dillys” on the street. Unlimited naloxone administered 10x a day to the same clients @janephilpott a well intentioned idea... - @drannamedical on X
• 🚫 It’s time to scrap “Housing First” as a policy tool to address homelessness. It is a failure because it does not address addiction, which is the root cause of homelessness for the vast majority of the unhoused. (link) - @bruderSkin on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 💊 State Tele-Buprenorphine Prescribing Policies by Medical Professional Type - JAMA Health Forum - 2026-04-24 - doi.org
• 🧪 Drug sellers' use of a drug checking service amid the overdose crisis in British Columbia, Canada - Addiction - 2026-04-24 - doi.org
• 🏠 Dying younger, dying of overdose: gendered and age dimensions of mortality and shelter service access among individuals experiencing homelessness in Toronto, Canada - BMC Public Health - 2026-04-22 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

State Laws

• 📜 [Washington] Encouraging permanent supportive housing, transitional housing, indoor emergency housing, and indoor emergency shelters. - 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) - Expected: TBA
• 💉 AIDS United - Harm Reduction Futures Fund - Expected: TBA

📣 Activism

• 💜 Shatterproof - Donate to Shatterproof for Alcohol Awareness Month

Update Notes

April 27, 2026 (#9e6e6c6) — Improve News section dedupe across prior runs, with related cosmetic fixes for emojis, email link layout, tighten funding section in podcast, adding a couple more news sources. I love feedback and requests – contact@christianarthur.tech

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