Harm Reduction Briefing — Aug 18, 2026
NEWSLETTER UPDATE
Launching a twice-weekly version of the newsletter! Switch cadence here. Also releasing a search engine for looking through historical content!
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📰 News Media
- 💊 [Brighton, MI] Livingston County Weighs $75K Plan to Track Employees' Opioid Prescriptions - hoodline.com
- 🚐 [CT] PODCAST: Methadone access expands in CT - ctmirror.org
- ⚖️ [National] When evidence, economic arguments and the law aren’t enough: Responding to political attacks on harm reduction - blog.catie.ca
- 💰 [National] HHS Awards Over $96 Million to Strengthen Mental Health, Suicide Prevention, and Substance Use Disorder Services - samhsa.gov
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
- No posts found today.
Innovation
- 🩹 Virginia Tech researchers have developed a wearable patch that can detect fentanyl and releases naloxone automatically, offering a potential new approach to preventing unwitnessed opioid overdose deaths. 🔗: (link) - @virginia_tech on X
- 📟 Smaller than a penny, a smart patch released naloxone within minutes of sensing fentanyl and kept responding for up to 24 hours in early tests. @advscinews (link) - @medical_xpress on X
Opposition Views
🏙 City Updates
- No recent City Updates found.
📚 Academic Research
- 🩺 Beyond the Target Product Profile: Design Requirements for Point-of-Need HCV RNA Testing in Harm Reduction Settings - 2026-08-17 - doi.org
- 🧪 Monitoring Injected Drug Use in Greece Through Syringe Residue Analysis: A Multicity Study Within the ESCAPE Network - Drug Testing and Analysis - 2026-08-18 - doi.org
- 💊 Khả năng mở rộng và điều chỉnh can thiệp dựa trên bằng chứng cho người sử dụng methamphetamine trong chương trình methadone tại Việt Nam: Quan điểm người bệnh và nhân viên y tế - Tạp chí Y học Dự phòng - 2026-08-15 - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
State Laws
💸 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
- NEW · 💊 Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA FY 2026 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Site-Based Program - Deadline: Sep 24, 2026
📣 Activism
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Featured Resource
Remedy Alliance / For The People
Remedy Alliance/FTP helps community-based harm reduction organizations access low-cost naloxone for local distribution, along with technical assistance and drug-checking support.
Newsletter Improvements
August 18, 2026 (#e06cae1) - Fixing duplication in Activism section. Labeling which funding opportunities are new to the briefing. Patching bug featuring old social posts. Adding KevinMD to News sources. I love feedback and requests - [email protected]