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📰 News Media

• 💉 [Denver, CO] Colorado lawmakers kill supervised use sites bill after Polis ... - denverpost.com
• 🧪 [San Diego, California] Drug checking aims to protect users from serious harm - latimes.com
• 🧑 [National] Harm reduction workforce, behavioral health, and service ... - harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com
• ⚖️ [National] Opinion | 'Safe drug sites' don't work. The data proves it. - washingtonpost.com
• 💊 [National] A quiet revolution in drug policy: States embrace fentanyl ... - washingtonpost.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 🧠 As a former addict STOP COMPARING AI TO A FUCKING DRUG. AI addiction is as real as porn addiction. Addiction is a genuine life destroying disease. Addicts don't actively harm the environment with their usage. Whose... - @g-busters on Bluesky

Innovation

• 🧪 How does it work? 1. Surrender a substance 2. Tell us what you think it is & about your drug use 3. We do lab tests inc. a test for synthetic opioids 4. After ~1 hour, we have results & can give honest advice - @WeAreTheLoopUK on X
• 🚨 ONIC released 2 public safety bulletins on dangerous drugs in Ohio: potent orphine analogs & animal sedatives medetomidine & xylazine that increase overdose risks. Emergence of Orphines: (link) Veterinary Sedatives:... - @OhNarcoticIntel on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 In the name of denouncing the racist war on drugs, California created drug hubs free from monitoring by law enforcement. Democrat Governor @GavinNewsom began the Harm Reduction Initiative, which teaches drug use to... - @WordsofFaithTo1 on X

🏙 City Updates

• 📧 - [Louisville, KY] - July 31, 2026 - Harm Reduction Outreach Services expands hepatitis C testing in Louisville - view newsletter online for more info

📚 Academic Research

• 🤖 Customizing and fine-tuning opioid overdose machine learning models for community-specific dashboards - Journal Of Big Data - 2026-07-30 - doi.org
• 🩺 Centering Veteran expertise: advancing peer-led harm reduction in the Veterans health administration - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-08-01 - doi.org
• 🧠 Developing a Substance Use Practice Approach for Peer Support Specialists in Early Psychosis Coordinated Specialty Care - Early Intervention in Psychiatry - 2026-08-01 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

City Ordinances

• 🏙️ [Milwaukee, WI] A substitute ordinance relating to penalties for the sale of alcohol, tobacco, and cannabinoid products to minors. - milwaukee.legistar.com

💸 Funding (Click to expand)

Current

• 🔬 National Institutes of Health - Establishing a Center for the Advancement of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Pharmacotherapeutics through Training and Preclinical Support (U54 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) - Deadline: Sep 30, 2026
• 🔬 National Institutes of Health - Limited Competition: Growing Great Ideas: Research Education Course in Entrepreneurship and Product Development for Researchers Studying Drug Use, Drug Misuse, and Drug Addiction (UE5 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) - Deadline: Oct 1, 2026

📣 Activism

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Featured Resource

Remedy Alliance / For The People

Remedy Alliance/FTP helps community-based harm reduction organizations access low-cost naloxone for local distribution, along with technical assistance and drug-checking support.

Newsletter Improvements

July 21, 2026 (#82daa29) - Adding diagnostics for the twice-weekly roll-up. I love feedback and requests - [email protected]

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