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📰 News Media

• 🌿 [Ammon, Idaho] A Herbal Product Sold at Gas Stations Is Being Blamed for an Addiction Crisis - wsj.com
• 🧑 [National] Virtual intervention reduces substance use in American Indians and Alaska Natives - medicalxpress.com
• 🚦 [National] The Drug War Myths People Still Believe - filtermag.org
• 🏥 [Maryland] Maryland’s youth turning over a new leaf: Teens vaping less - baltimoresun.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 🛟 Hey all, I’m in the home stretch of my recovery journey, and need a hand restarting sober life. Anything you could give will help immensely. gofund.me/f3b5d17e8 - @kidkilowatt on Bluesky

Innovation

• 🧪 In 2025, Check It, a mobile program delivers drug checking, wound care, and other services to Baltimore neighborhoods with high overdose burdens, became a state-authorized Opioid-Associated Disease Prevention and... - @globalhealthnow on X
• 🧠 @Super_Powers_AI Hey Super, build a functional Relapse Risk & Recovery Support Visualizer designed to provide research-backed recovery mapping and harm-reduction planning inspired by evidence-based addiction science... - @RohanArun on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 In Seattle, the influence of harm reduction as a policy approach extends well beyond combatting addiction. It's the driving force behind "Housing First" -- which explicitly prohibits requirements for abstinence and... - @SaraENelson on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 🧠 Contemporary patterns of methamphetamine use and misuse: neurotoxicity, dependency, and societal burden - Journal of Substance Use - 2026-08-10 - doi.org
• 💉 Naloxone Rescue for Late Oxycodone Toxicity in Multimorbid Octogenarian After Neuraxial Anesthesia - 2026-08-10 - doi.org
• 💊 Acceptance of Opioid Agonist Treatment in Alberta Bed-based Addiction Treatment Services - The Canadian Journal of Addiction - 2026-08-10 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

Federal Agencies

• 🧪 [United States] [Final Rule] Schedules of Controlled Substances: Temporary Placement of O-Desmethyltramadol in Schedule I - federalregister.gov

State Laws

• 💊 [Illinois] SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER SERVICE - openstates.org

💸 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

• 💜 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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