Harm Reduction Briefing — Aug 16, 2026
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📰 News Media
- ⚖️ [Sacramento, CA] Proposition 36 Rollout Falls Short of Treatment Promises as Felony Arrests Mount - davisvanguard.org
- 🚐 [Enfield, CT] CT’s first state-funded methadone vans expand access to treatment - ctmirror.org
- 💉 [Augusta, ME] 3 organizations to receive grants from opioid settlement funds - centralmaine.com
- 🍃 [Deerfield, Massachusetts] Massachusetts cracks down on kratom, following lead of local communities - gazettenet.com
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
- No posts found today.
Innovation
- 🚨 Northern Health and @fnha are issuing a Drug Advisory for the Northern Health Region. Recent drug samples of white Hydromorphine pills, sold as “Dilaudid” have tested positive for the new synthetic opioid... - @Northern_Health on X
- 📶 Retention in Telehealth-Delivered Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: Multistate Retrospective Cohort Study. (link) - @digitalhealthev on X
Opposition Views
🏙 City Updates
- No recent City Updates found.
📚 Academic Research
- 🏥 Articles You Might Have Missed - Journal of Medical Toxicology - 2026-08-14 - doi.org
- 💊 Medication transitions and predictors of illicit substance use during opioid agonist treatment: a three-year follow-up study - Addiction Science & Clinical Practice - 2026-08-14 - doi.org
- 🚑 Synthetische Opioide: Der Versuch, vor die Welle zu kommen - Sozialmagazin - 2026-08-13 - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
- No hits in Law and Policy today.
💸 Funding (Click to expand)
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
- No activism updates found.
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Featured Resource
Harm Reduction Vending Machine Readiness Toolkit
This Johns Hopkins decision-making toolkit helps public health agencies, community organizations, and advocates assess readiness, identify gaps, and plan a harm reduction vending-machine program.
Newsletter Improvements
August 12, 2026 (#9b45c25) - Better collecting headline for manual submissions. Fixing logging. Replacing dead feeds. Slight copy change. I love feedback and requests - [email protected]