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📰 News Media

• 🎛️ [National] Shambhala music festival drugs ketamine ecstasy - nytimes.com
• 🏥 [Ontario] Ontario's big-city mayors to endorse mandatory addiction care, ramping up pressure on Ford government - qpbriefing.com
• 💊 [Washington, DC] DC faces criticism over plan to use opioid settlement money to help fund Medicaid costs - wtop.com
• 🧠 [Baltimore, MD] Profs and Pints: Psychedelics' emerging role in therapy - baltimoresun.com
• 💊 [National] US sees a big jump in nausea cases among frequent marijuana users in the hospital - wmur.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 🛟 I rarely talk about this, but I used to be addicted to meth. It wasn't a moral failing, it was me being at the wrong party at the wrong time. A really hot guy encouraged me to use with him and I was instantly... - @nommo333 on X

Innovation

• 🧪 SAMHSA banned federal funds for fentanyl test strips—our cheapest overdose prevention tool. Baltimore OD deaths dropped 40% using these. Now programs choose between strips and wound care. We're going backwards.... - @lifejourneyblog on X
• 🧴 "In late April, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration banned the use of federal grants for distributing strips to the public and for some other harm reduction practices that have been... - @servelan on Bluesky

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Legalization sounds great, tax revenue; fewer arrests, safer use; but the real-world results of the last 30 years don’t match the pitch. That “revenue” gets eaten up by higher healthcare and addiction costs. Use... - @SupportAALM on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 🏥 Correlates of Post-Release Overdose Among Women With Opioid Use Disorder Returning to the Community Following Jail Incarceration - Substance Use &amp Addiction Journal - 2026-08-07 - doi.org
• 🏚️ Study: Remediating abandoned houses reduces fatal and nonfatal opioid overdoses - Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly - 2026-08-10 - doi.org
• 🧠 Identifying naloxone knowledge gaps on Reddit among laypersons and healthcare providers using AI - BMC Public Health - 2026-08-06 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

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Current

• 🩺 Centers for Disease Control-GHC - Improving regional capacity to respond to HIV, TB, and other global health priorities in Central America - Deadline: Aug 31, 2026
• 🔬 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

📣 Activism

• 💜 Shatterproof - Donate to Shatterproof for Overdose Awareness Month

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August 8, 2026 (#405b444) - Removing PR wire from scan. Improving diagnostics. Improving fetching NYT articles. I love feedback and requests - [email protected]

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