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📰 News Media

• 💊 [National] Use + Harm Reduction Archives - Filter - filtermag.org
• 💊 [Boston, MA] What parents need to know about kratom - bostonherald.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🧭 Pipes as an engagement tool: qualitative findings from a crack equipment and harm reduction training intervention in England" by Casey Sharpe and colleagues (2026) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social . Does your area give out pipes for people who smoke drugs? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... - bsky.app
• 🧭 Pipes as an engagement tool: qualitative findings from a crack equipment and harm reduction training intervention in England www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... - bsky.app
• 🧪 NEST Harm Reduction: Licensed Clinicians Delivering Psychedelic‑Adjunct Care - bsky.app

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🤝 The Greens here with the only drugs policy based in evidence and harm reduction. Polanski rightly points out the disingenuous position of many politicians, pushing counterproductive crack downs in spite of many senior politicians stating on the record that they have taken illegal drugs. - bsky.app

🏙 City Updates

• 💊 - [Dallas, TX] - October 8, 2025 - Dallas County Announces Expansion of Overdose Response Team to Five Cities - dallascounty.org
• 🫂 - [Austin, TX] - August 29, 2025 - City of Austin Highlighting Local Information and Resources for International Overdose Awareness Day - austintexas.gov

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