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📰 News Media

• 💊 [New Haven, Connecticut] FBI New Haven seizes 23 kilograms of Fentanyl-laced pills - wfsb.com
• 💉 [Las Vegas (Southern Nevada), Nevada] Decade of collaboration helps lower overdoses, but new drug threats emerging - lasvegassun.com
• 💉 [New York City, New York] House Republican urges new Trump AG Blanche to shut down Biden-era NYC heroin injection sites - foxnews.com
• 🌿 [National] States enact emergency orders on kratom while awaiting federal rules - medicalxpress.com
• 🧠 [National] The VA is Now Evaluating MDMA, GLP-1s and Psilocybin for Behavioral Health - bhbusiness.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 🛟 I am in long term recovery from a heroin addiction. With that life comes homelessness, mental health issues, trauma, crime, bankruptcy etc. I was one of the lucky ones that made it out alive— many of us don’t. This... - @tippytopANON17 on X

Innovation

• 🧪 NEWS: A series of overdose spikes across D.C. this summer, including a citywide surge over the Fourth of July, has prompted harm reduction advocates to call for expanded drug checking, which they say could help... - @streetsensedc on Bluesky
• 🏥 Totally agree. Before retiring, I was a medical Director of several high-end rehab facilities. I recall a successful program in Rhode Island that instituted medical assisted therapy for the homeless addicted. That... - @RchNrmn on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Supervised Consumption Sites: Ineffective and Illegal (link) - @learnaboutsam on X

🏙 City Updates

• 🚑 - [Las Vegas, NV] - August 11, 2026 - New approaches to substance misuse prevention take center stage at annual summit - southernnevadahealthdistrict.org

📚 Academic Research

• 🧪 Detection of Nitazenes in the Illicit Drug Supply Utilizing Precursor Ion Scan Methods With Paper Spray Mass Spectrometry - Drug Testing and Analysis - 2026-08-14 - doi.org
• 🧪 Signal detection and characterisation of a novel drug–drug interaction between methadone and a synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonist - British Journal of Pharmacology - 2026-08-14 - doi.org
• 💊 Retention in Telehealth-Delivered Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: Multistate Retrospective Cohort Study - Journal of Medical Internet Research - 2026-08-14 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

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Current

• Deadline Approaching · 🚑 Office of National Drug Control Policy - Nonfatal Overdoses in Emergency Departments: Bridging Patient Characteristics, Biospecimen Toxicology, and Drug Supply Composition - 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

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Newsletter Improvements

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