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📰 News Media

• 🏥 [New Berlin, WI] Developer's loss in court keeps fight going over New Berlin rehab facility - bizjournals.com
• 🚬 [National] New Hub Platforms Lived Experiences of Tobacco Harm Reduction - filtermag.org
• 💊 [National] Purdue Pharma to Pay $225 Million to Justice Department - wsj.com
• 📰 [National] Many parents of children and teens unaware of minimum legal age for tobacco - medicalxpress.com
• 🧠 [National] What to know about psychedelic retreats, a booming business with few safety guardrails - The Boston Globe - bostonglobe.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 It's absolutely astonishing to me that we're a few days shy of ten years having passed since I lost my brother, my best friend, my accomplice, and one of the finest humans I've had the privilege to know to an... - @azzy-mae on linkedin

Innovation

• 🧪 Fentanyl test strips are not a theory. In Baltimore, Check It brings drug checking to high-overdose neighborhoods, helping people learn what is in the supply and make safer choices in real time. That is prevention.... - @ActionForOD on X

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🟢 In case you missed it: Check out our latest resources about life-saving drug checking services! #SyringeServicesPrograms #SSPs #DrugChecking - @HarmReduction on X
• 🚫 Sippin' on Facts · Learn about the ICE and fentanyl ballot measures Advance Colorado has successfully gotten three measures on the ballot. At this event, they’ll be discussing the ones about requiring the police to... - u/VisualCoyote1461 on Reddit

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 🤖 “Smart” harm reduction vending machines to improve public health: Evaluating the utilization - Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment - 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
• 📞 “We’re here, and we're non-judgmental, we’re here to save lives”: stressors and fulfillment among overdose response hotline operators in Canada - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-04-25 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

State Laws

• 📜 [Maine] An Act Regarding Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Activities - 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 - Expected: TBA
• 💉 AIDS United - Harm Reduction Futures Fund - Expected: TBA

📣 Activism

• 💜 Shatterproof - Donate to Shatterproof for alcohol prevention education
• 💜 Shatterproof - Donate to Shatterproof for Alcohol Awareness Month

Update Notes

April 28, 2026 (#9608ff5) — Fixing backend issue with writing social posts to database. I love feedback and requests – contact@christianarthur.tech

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