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📰 News Media

• 🏙️ [New York, New York] Mamdani to Reinstitute Homeless Encampment Sweeps - nytimes.com

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Innovation

• 📦 Your next package could save a life. 📦💙 Hamilton County residents can get free Narcan (naloxone) and fentanyl test strips delivered to their home. Narcan can reverse an overdose. Test strips can detect fentanyl. Order here: (link) - x.com

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 💢 Way to go back to 1980! Maybe build a supervised consumption site so people can use substances there under a nurse's supervision? All you are doing is pushing people to use drugs in hiding, which will cause more deaths. Addiction is a chronic relapsing condition and the majority who voluntarily enter recovery relapse, good luck forcing people. What an out of touch policy. - x.com
• 👍 AARA supports H.R. 2383 PROTECTING KIDS FROM FENTANYL ACT in Congress The H.R. 2383 PROTECTING KIDS FROM FENTANYL ACT by Congressman Joe Neguse allows states to use Block Grant funds to buy naloxone for schools #EndtheWhisper #Congress @RepJoeNeguse - x.com

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 2026-02-17 - Approaches to preventing opioid-related harms in US higher education: A PRISMA-guided scoping review - Journal of American College Health - doi.org
• 2026-02-18 - Opioid Modulation of Differential Gene Expression and Neuronal Differentiation in the Ventricular-subventricular Zone of Adult Male Zebra Finches - Annals of Neurosciences - doi.org
• 2026-02-19 - A qualitative study on cannabis use for harm reduction and pain among veterans enrolled in an SUD treatment program - Harm Reduction Journal - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

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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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