Harm Reduction Briefing — Aug 24, 2026
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📰 News Media
- 🌿 [Albany, NY] Albany County set to ban kratom sales, distribution - wamc.org
- 🍃 [Miami, FL] Baby Boomers Are Smoking More Pot. Their Neighbors Are Fuming. - wsj.com
- 📉 [National] Why Getting High Has Only Gotten Cheaper - nytimes.com
- 🧠 [International] NICOLAS LANGLITZ, MD, PHD: You have to find a space for these wild psychedelics in a rule governed world - drogriporter.hu
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
- No posts found today.
Innovation
- 📊 From Crisis Response to Metric-Driven Control: How Opioid Provisions Expanded Beyond Altruism, Constrained Patient Voice, Normalized Tools Against Grievances — and Correlate with Elevated Suicide Risk (link) - @Eadranai on X
- 🧠 @CMerandi @Breelee420 @ibdgirl76 — serious question. Between your networks, do we have the people and expertise to build a real patient-outcomes dataset? Not another collection of anecdotes. A structured cohort:... - @TeriCottone on X
Opposition Views
🏙 City Updates
- No recent City Updates found.
📚 Academic Research
- 🗺️ Geospatial Analysis of Opioid-Related Outcomes Across Riverside County ZIP Codes and Associations With Social Determinants of Health - Cureus - 2026-08-22 - doi.org
- 💊 Policy Pathways for Addressing Opioid-Stimulant Polysubstance Use - Substance Use & Addiction Journal - 2026-08-19 - doi.org
- 💊 Prescribed alternative stimulants among people who use unregulated stimulants: Examining the association between maximum dose reached and medication discontinuation in the first 3 years of implementation in British Columbia, Canada - Addiction - 2026-08-20 - 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
- 💊 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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