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📰 News Media

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🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🧰 NJ Department of Human Services ' #NaloxoneDirect gives first responders and harm reduction agencies and others the chance to request direct shipments of naloxone, anytime they need it, at no charge. 🔗Register and submit requests here: bit.ly/3bSnEgC #StopOverdoses #Naloxone - bsky.app

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 💬 I'm pro decriminalisation, regulation and harm reduction but kids are drinking in playgrounds and OTC/prescription painkiller abuse is a real problem. (And the latter do enter the black market). We can't minimise this as part of the argument for better and more logical drugs policy. - bsky.app
• 🤝 I carry naloxone everywhere I go, and I’ve had to use it more than once. I’ve watched people stop breathing. I’ve felt the panic, and I’ve watched life come back into their bodies because naloxone was there. That’s why funding nasal naloxone matters. The nasal spray is less intimidating than a needle. More people will carry it. More people will use it, and that means more people will live. This is the reality of the toxic drug supply. Everyone should carry naloxone, and everyone should know how to use it. Because the person overdosing won’t always be a “stranger.” It's someone’s child. Someone’s partner. Someone’s best friend. It could be someone you love. Lives depend on it! - x.com

🏙 City Updates

• ❤️ - [Washington, DC] - December 1, 2025 - Mayor Bowser and DC Health Highlight Resources for Residents on World AIDS Day - dchealth.dc.gov

📚 Academic Research

• 2026-02-21 - The geography of risk: understanding disparities in nonmedical opioid mortality and the role of socio-built environments in New Jersey - Harm Reduction Journal - doi.org
• 2026-02-21 - Integrated infectious disease and substance use disorder treatment for severe injection-related infections: protocol for the randomized controlled HI-SIRI trial - Addiction Science & Clinical Practice - doi.org
• 2026-02-19 - Characterization of fentanyl exposures in children less than 10 years old - Clinical Toxicology - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

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Update Notes

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

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