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🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🧠 Policy4OOD: A Knowledge-Guided World Model for Policy Intervention Simulation against the Opioid Overdose Crisis Yijun Ma, Zehong Wang, Weixiang Sun, Zheyuan Zhang, Kaiwen Shi, Nitesh Chawla, Yanfang Ye (link) [𝚌𝚜.𝙻𝙶 𝚁𝚂 𝙰𝙸 𝚌𝚜.𝚂𝙸] - x.com
• 🧩 You’re a Lifesaver, Carry Naloxone Carry naloxone, then do the next right thing. Protect access to methadone and buprenorphine, remove red tape, support same day starts, make follow up and referral warm not wishful. Prevention and treatment belong on the same card. #ValentinesDay - x.com

Harm Reduction Discourse

• ⚖️ Renaming oceans while lethal drugs flood our streets? That's not sovereignty—it's a distraction masquerading as governance. Priorities warped beyond recognition. Despite Noem's "sealed border" claims, fentanyl seizures plunged 55% in 2025—just 7,517 pounds intercepted as deadly supply surged. Yet DHS hoards $150 billion from last year's $191 billion bonanza while demanding another $116 billion. This theater costs lives: agents shot over a dozen since September, killing four including U.S. citizens. Your Gulf rebrand drowns truth in performative nationalism. Americans deserve protection, not propaganda. - x.com
• 🏥 Health and Medical Policies •Opioid Crisis Funding: •Signed legislation providing billions in funding for opioid addiction treatment and prevention. - x.com

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📚 Academic Research

• 2026-02-17 - Mechanisms of overdose from unintentional fentanyl use when intending to use stimulants: a qualitative study of people who use stimulants and avoid opioids - crossref - doi.org
• 2026-02-14 - Temporal and regional associations between fentanyl concentrations in the unregulated drug supply and drug-related mortality in British Columbia, Canada - International Journal of Drug Policy - doi.org
• 2026-02-13 - 244. Models for Peer-to-peer Overdose Prevention Education in Adolescents and Young Adults - Journal of Adolescent Health - doi.org

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February 16, 2026 (#319af1b) — Improved Law and Policy scan and filters, for both Congress and State new laws

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