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📰 News Media

• 🪡 [Augusta, ME] Augusta council pauses new, expanded needle exchange programs - centralmaine.com
• 🚑 [Providence, RI] ‘It Makes Everything Happen’: The Benefits of OPCs Beyond Overdose Prevention - talkingdrugs.org
• 🏥 [CO] Study finds many Colorado jails still lack public opioid treatment policies despite state mandate - medicalxpress.com
• 🤝 [National] Mental health workers may hold negative beliefs about people who misuse opioids - medicalxpress.com
• 💉 [Tampa, FL] WhiteSands Treatment Releases New Evidence-Based Resource on Fentanyl Addiction Treatment and the Continuum of Recovery Care - commercialappeal.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 They were talking to me about how it's good to have narcan on hand even if you don't use. I asked for some bc my partner at the time was a former user (better be safe). I'm now labeled an opiate addict permanently... - @kokiricat on Bluesky

Innovation

• 🧪 🌍Everyone deserves access to health services that meet their needs. New @GlobalFund guidance helps countries introduce innovative harm reduction approaches, including Long-Acting Depot Buprenorphine and Low Dead... - @path on Bluesky
• 🧪 🌍Everyone deserves access to health services that meet their needs. New @GlobalFund guidance helps countries introduce innovative harm reduction approaches, including Long-Acting Depot Buprenorphine and Low Dead... - @PATHtweets on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 How many drug treatment beds there are in Sechelt? Guess how far you have to travel to find an abstinence based program? Powell River. The NDP keep on about housing only, harm reduction, now the court challenged... - @michaelmorden on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 🧠 Detecting misconception surges in opioid policy: a zero-shot LLM analysis of British Columbia’s decriminalization pilot - BMC Public Health - 2026-08-06 - doi.org
• 🧠 Sex differences in depression diagnosis, primary care contacts, and overdose risk - Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) - 2026-08-05 - doi.org
• 🏠 Policies and practices addressing medication and substance use in recovery housing: findings from a nationally representative survey - The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse - 2026-08-05 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

• No hits in Law and Policy today.

💸 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

• 🗓️ Mobilize Recovery - Register for Understanding Recovery and Accessibility workshop
• 📣 National Homelessness Law Center - Join Housing Not Handcuffs campaign for homelessness action alerts
• 💜 Shatterproof - Donate to Shatterproof for Overdose Awareness Month

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Newsletter Improvements

August 8, 2026 (#c559999) - Patching bug blocking web version for twice weekly newsletter. I love feedback and requests - [email protected]

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