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📰 News Media

• ⚖️ [California] Four States Sue Administration Over Loss of Public Health Funds - nytimes.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🧪 Most unintentional drug deaths in Newfoundland and Labrador now involve polydrug toxicity, driven mainly by cocaine–opioid combinations, underscoring the urgent need for region-specific harm-reduction and drug-checking strategies t.co/pHD1f9fZOZ - bsky.app

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🤝 We should normalize harm reduction and decriminalization and not judging people for their own choices. People will always do drugs, having options for them to do so safely will always be infinitely better than prohibition - x.com
• 🧪 Opioid overdose deaths dropped nearly 27% in 2024. How do we keep the momentum? Join Penn LDI on Feb 13 for a virtual conversation on treatment access, harm reduction, and policy challenges with Jonathan Caulkins of @cmuheinzcollege.bsky.social, Yngvild Olsen, and Rachel Winograd. Register: - bsky.app

🏙 City Updates

• 💊 - [San Francisco, CA] - January 7, 2026 - Mayor Lurie Takes Major Step to Get Drug Users Off San Francisco Streets, Announces RESET Center - sf.gov

📚 Academic Research

• 2026-02-11 - Strengthening Partnerships Between Syringe Services Programs and Police in the United States - Substance Use & Misuse - doi.org
• 2026-02-10 - Pharmacist-Led Fentanyl Test Strip Education and Distribution for Veterans in Substance Use Treatment: A Quality Improvement Project - Substance Use & Misuse - doi.org
• 2026-02-10 - Assessing the Morality of Harm Reduction Interventions in Substance Use Treatment - The Linacre Quarterly - doi.org

Update Notes

February 13, 2026 (#7a8369f) — Beginning adding Law and Policy section starting with Fed reg and law news. Improved news filtering to screen out climate change articles and Social section to filter out non-English. Working on ongoing Buttondown sending bugs

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