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📰 News Media

• 🏠 [Ohio] DeWine orders oversight of Ohio's addiction recovery houses - dispatch.com
• 🏥 [Louisa, KY] Addiction Recovery Care Gets New CEO Days After $16M DOJ Settlement - bhbusiness.com
• 🌿 [Boston, MA] Mass. cannabis consumers are concerned about potency, tax spending, finds study - wgbh.org
• 🚬 [National] Finding Optimism in the Tobacco Harm Reduction Maelstrom - filtermag.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💊 Like you I support harm reduction, I was on methadone for 15 years. Grateful for clean needles. I was in the Crisis Centre twice. We need all of that, but I found my way out of addiction with abstinence, peer... - @GlesgaMammy on X

Innovation

• 🧪 So this report is finalized while the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office has commenced analysis of mitragynine associated deaths where they are actually testing for mitragynine. This is important because the... - @HaddowMac on X
• 🧠 An Innovation in Practice article in Anesthesiology Open describes the implementation of a secure, honest broker system by the Overdose Prevention Engagement Network to link state-wide registry data with Michigan’s... - @_Anesthesiology on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Absolutely, undeniably, clearly: 1. There was already evidence of a downward trend prior to 2003 2. Other countries which do "wage a war" against illegal drugs, such as Singapore, much of East Asia, etc... don't... - @TheUnsaid11 on X

🏙 City Updates

• 📧 - [Oklahoma City, OK] - August 10, 2026 - Construction begins on MAPS 4 Robert Ravitz Crisis Center - view newsletter online for more info

📚 Academic Research

• 🏥 Clinician Perspectives on OEND and MOUD Access for Clients on Community Supervision - Journal of Drug Issues - 2026-08-10 - doi.org
• 📊 California Drug and Alcohol Treatment Assessment (CALDATA-1991-1993) - ICPSR Data Holdings - 2026-08-06 - doi.org
• 💉 The Emergence of Carfentanil in Kensington: Ethical and Clinical Challenges for Harm Reduction in the Era of Ultra-Potent Synthetic Opioids - The Journal of Healthcare Ethics & Administration - 2026-08-10 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

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💸 Funding (Click to expand)

Current

• Deadline Approaching · 🩺 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
• 💜 Shatterproof - Donate to Shatterproof for Overdose Awareness Month

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Newsletter Improvements

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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