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📰 News Media

• 🏥 [Oakland, California] Oakland mayor seeks to scale back homeless encampment sweeps as others push crackdown - mercurynews.com
• 💉 [Boston, Massachusetts] St. Pierre: Kids pay price when vaccine policy is political - bostonherald.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🧪 Drug testing strips + naloxone = safer use. Before use: Test your supply. During and after use: Don’t use alone and have naloxone on hand. Be safe. We care about you. 💖 🔗 (link) - x.com

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🎗️ You can honor someone’s loss without passing policies that cause more loss. Ban kratom after one tragedy Remove a harm reduction tool for thousands Watch overdoses rise from fentanyl Now another family is grieving too. Compassion means regulating risk - not banning recovery options. - x.com
• 💬 Decriminalisation of drugs can work & should be discussed. Portugal uses a health-based approach, decriminalization + treatment & harm reduction & can effectively reduce drug-related harm. Portuguese policy works with money in social and health services. Offer Solutions please. - x.com

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 2026-02-13 - Hidden no more: A fifteen-year epidemiological assessment of HIV/AIDS in Libya and the urgent need for national action - African Journal of AIDS Research - doi.org
• 2026-02-12 - Are drugscapes bad for business (improvement districts)? Policy mobility, security planning, and frontier politics - Urban Geography - doi.org
• 2026-02-14 - Infrequent Cannabis Use and Increased Overdose Risk Among People Who Use Unregulated Drugs: Revealing Frequency-Dependent Effects Through Secondary Analysis - crossref - doi.org

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