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📰 News Media

• 🧪 [National] 'No politics, just keep people alive': Syringe services hope legality continues - lpm.org
• 🧭 [National] Use + Harm Reduction Archives - Filter - filtermag.org
• 💊 [National, California] California seizes record $500 million worth of fentanyl at border amid ongoing crisis - 10news.com
• 💊 [California] Over $500M in fentanyl seized since 2021, Newsom announces - kesq.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 📊 Reducing harm, saving lives. Since 2022 our Drug Related Death Strategy ‘Hope and Opportunity’ has guided actions to prevent deaths and serious harm. With a psychosocial focus aligned to harm reduction, we’re adapting to new risks. Read the full report here… zurl.co/nxakV - bsky.app
• 🧪 Prescribed #SafeSupply is hanging by a thread in BC but AVI Health & Community Services is still doing their best, providing access to harm reduction workers & walking the talk on "meaningful inclusion." This work will be featured at @cpha-acsp.bsky.social's #ph26sp www.catie.ca/programming-... - bsky.app
• ⚠️ Killing Musk is obvious harm reduction here. - 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
• 🔴 The "harm reduction" tobacco industry argument is akin to arguing that government policy should be geared towards encouraging snorting cocaine because it's "safer" than mainlining cocaine! #CantFixStupid! - bsky.app

🏙 City Updates

• 🚭 - [El Paso, TX] - November 20, 2025 - City Recognizes National Quit Smoking Day - elpasotexas.gov
• 🚑 - [Dallas, TX] - October 8, 2025 - Dallas County Announces Expansion of Overdose Response Team to Five Cities - dallascounty.org
• 💊 - [Phoenix, AZ] - September 29, 2025 - Heat Relief Network Wraps Up 2025 Season - maricopa.gov
• 🏚️ - [Minneapolis, MN] - September 16, 2025 - Minneapolis continues work to assist City’s unsheltered population - minneapolismn.gov

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