Harm Reduction Briefing — Aug 30, 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 Also releasing a search engine for looking through historical content!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
- 💉 [Denver, CO] Deadly fentanyl hits denver area market as new overdose operation launches - kdvr.com
- 💉 [Alberta] The Alberta Recovery Model: The Trojan Horse of Privatised Drug Treatment - talkingdrugs.org
- 🧠 [International] WIM VAN DEN BRINK | Psychedelics help reduce compulsive thinking, such as craving in drug addiction - drogriporter.hu
- 🩺 [National] Revisiting the Article That Sent Shockwaves Throughout the Substance Use Disorder Profession - recoveryreview.blog
- 🚭 [Providence, RI] Juul gets OK to sell updated vaping device with age-gating technology - wpri.com
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
Innovation
- 🧪 The Transparency Triple Check provides you with an easy-to-use protocol for confident at-home drug checking. 1️⃣ SCREEN for adulterants with test strips 2️⃣ IDENTIFY your substance using multiple reagents 3️⃣ VERIFY... - @BunkPolice on X
- 🏪 The new machines aim to make naloxone more readily available. {og:title} {article:title} (link) - @TimesHeraldPA on X
Opposition Views
🏙 City Updates
📚 Academic Research
- 🧪 Drug checking results, participant characteristics, and service retention from a longitudinal community-based drug checking study in the United States - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-08-30 - doi.org
- 🏠 Challenges and opportunities in embedding core components of substance use health care into Housing First programs - Frontiers in Public Health - 2026-08-26 - doi.org
- 🚓 Police drug market disruptions and number of drug sources among people who use drugs in San Francisco - Health & Justice - 2026-08-28 - 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
- 🫶 Mobilize Recovery - Register to volunteer for Narcan at Night in Las Vegas
- 🗓️ Faces & Voices of Recovery - Register for the 25th Anniversary Recovery Leadership Summit
- 💬 Mobilize Recovery - Join Ryan Hampton’s live Reddit AMA on addiction recovery
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Featured Resource
Brave Sensors monitor public washrooms for overdose and alert onsite responders. Brave Buttons offer a smaller, resident-activated safety option designed specifically for supportive housing.
Newsletter Improvements
August 30, 2026 (#5f1b21d) - Improved filtering of Academic Articles through DOI lookup. Better filtering news outlets available through RSS feeds. Correcting diagnostics. Project process improvements. I love feedback and requests - [email protected]