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📰 News Media

• 🧭 [National] Harm reduction, not prohibition, right approach to nicotine - washingtontimes.com
• 💊 [National] 'El Mencho,' leader of Jalisco New Generation Cartel that supplies U.S. cocaine trade, killed by Mexican army - chicago.suntimes.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🔎 We spend so much time arguing about crypto’s criminal use that we’ve missed the most useful part, which is the most honest economic map we’ve ever had. Watching on-chain payments to fentanyl precursor labs can predict overdose trends months before the government's own hospital data. It turns the blockchain into an early warning system for public health. The ledger is a real-time signal for where the next crisis is hitting. This is the first time we've seen on-chain transparency actually save lives on the ground. (link) - x.com
• 🧰 The AG placed a lifesaving naloxone distribution box at Pratt Community College yesterday. Naloxone can reverse fentanyl ODs and save lives. Each distribution box provides free kits that anyone can take and carry. If you're in the Pratt area, check it out. - x.com

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🟢 This for 20 years (with EVERYONE taking a cut along the way to cast a blind eye), while @bcndp @Dave_Eby Poverty & Drug Industry has citizens running around with naloxone kits (that cost millions from our taxes) to revive junkies who will continue to feed a system that only exists in order to makes lots of people (who should rightly burn in hell, & I hope they do) rich. Pls read @scoopercooper 'Wilful Blindness' & support his Substack if you can. Also @AdamZivo @AaronGunn have also done great reporting on the issue. I live adjacent to DTES & witness it daily. Just today from Sam Cooper:(link) - x.com
• 🚫 #Mexico Hey, @DanielLurie!! L👀k at what the fentanyl cartels are doing with all the money you make sure they get!! Seems bad. I assume you did not intend this? Still: Look at what your policies have done, funding drug use. Do you feel bad about it? cc. @SFPD @SF_DPH - x.com

🏙 City Updates

• 🛡️ - [San Francisco, CA] - February 18, 2026 - Mayor Lurie Signs Legislation to Advance the RESET Center and Combat Public Drug Use on San Francisco Streets - sf.gov

📚 Academic Research

• 2026-02-22 - Prevalence of Nonfatal Opioid Overdoses and Interactions With the Health Care System Prior to Death Among Opioid Overdose Decedents, Rhode Island, 2023 - Public Health Reports - doi.org
• 2026-02-19 - Diving + Dancing in the Quantum Void: A Practical Primer (Delphian Case File #1) - Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) - doi.org
• 2026-02-18 - Transactional Intimacy and Structural Vulnerability: Compensated Dating among LGBTQA + Youth in Japan - Sexuality Research and Social Policy - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

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Update Notes

February 23, 2026 (#437a248) — Overhauled the news section to increase hits: NYC API, RSS feeds, and sourcing from Addiction Policy Forum, KFF, and others. Improved news filter. I love feedback and requests – contact@christianarthur.tech

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