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📰 News Media

• 🏥 [Denver, Colorado] Colorado sues to block Trump administration from cutting public health grants - denverpost.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 💡 Today at 1PM: Saving Supervised Consumption Sites (Virtual). The first of two webinars exploring the current harm reduction landscape in Canada and consider how we can push back against the many efforts to demonize and shutter critical healthcare services. This session will cover the current... - bsky.app

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 💬 Follow-up Q: "So in theory, OpenAI could attempt to implement a hard-stop safety feature that'd include a user retention threshold to mitigate their own potential profit loss while also increasing user safety?" A: see attached. This is what I imagine it feels like to be part of the WH Press Corps - bsky.app
• 💊 Workplaces prep for fires and cardiac arrest, they should prep for overdose too. The bipartisan WORK to Save Lives Act would expand naloxone access, training, plus OSHA guidance. #OverdosePrevention #WorkplaceSafety (link) - x.com

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 2026-02-11 - Reimagining better addiction treatment services through telemedicine : a complex systems approach - University of St Andrews - doi.org
• 2026-02-06 - Practical considerations for residential-managed alcohol programs: lessons from Ottawa Inner City Health - Harm Reduction Journal - doi.org
• 2026-02-06 - Peer Navigator Intervention and Opioid-Related Adverse Events for Emergency Department Patients - JAMA Network Open - doi.org

Update Notes

February 12, 2026 (#293c202) — Adding an Academic section to the newsletter pulling recent hits about harm reduction innovation and policy. OpenAlex and Crossref APIs

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