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📰 News Media

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🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🧭 Chainalysis: Blockchain data could help detect overdose crises early 🚨 Crypto payments linked to darknet markets may serve as an early warning signal for emerging drug trends. (link) #CryptoNews - x.com
• 🧠 🔓Transforming Opioid Poisoning Surveillance Through Novel Technologies: Rationale and Methodological Protocol for Applying Natural Language Processing to ED Data Ting Xia, Tina Lam, Joanna F. Dipnall, Jane Hayman, Richard Beare, ... @DrSuziNielsen (link) - x.com

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🤝 This is how easy and pervasive access to drugs is, and what we as a society are up against when it comes to harm reduction. No drug policy is even close to perfect, but the current system has not worked and we need to change the strategy to actually try and make people safer and happier. - bsky.app
• ⚖️ So the dude with the green hair didn't "take over" drug policy or the "harm reduction space." Harm reduction has been endorsed by the AMA, FDA, SAMHSA, CDC, UNDOC, WHO, Health Canada, CPHA, EUDA, BCMJ, CAMH, CCSA, JSAD, NIDA, CMAJ, Lancet, BMJ, etc. It's no longer "radical." - x.com

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 2026-02-18 - Using the HPV vaccine as a public health case study for identifying potential barriers to a Fentanyl vaccine - Harm Reduction Journal - doi.org
• 2026-02-18 - Barriers to Buprenorphine Prescribing for Opioid Use Disorder Among Louisiana Family Physicians: A Pilot Survey Study With Narrative Review - Cureus - doi.org
• 2026-02-18 - Is there a system of safety in the NHS? - openalex - 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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