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📰 News Media

• 🏥 [San Francisco, California] SF Advances RESET Sobering Center, Over Concerns of Unlawful ... - filtermag.org
• 🌐 [National] The Future of Harm Reduction Is Digital and Community Led - substancy.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🧪 Having overdose prevention tools on hand doesn’t mean you use drugs — it means you’re prepared to save a life. Naloxone (Narcan®) and fentanyl test strips can help prevent overdose deaths, and they ship FREE to your home. Be prepared. Order today at (link) - x.com

Harm Reduction Discourse

🚫 In Opposition

• 🚫 Housing 1st/Harm Reduction are the most regressive policies of my life & have caused irreparable harm to homeless adults struggling with addiction. Maybe Beth/ECS should have a conversation with @missamberreid to learn how the Housing 1st experiment has failed addicts. - x.com

🟢 In Support

• 🤝 If enacted, the Holistic Overdose Prevention and Equity (HOPE) Act would support “Housing First,” naloxone access for prisoners and the addition of harm reduction-specific positions to the state health department. By @kastaliamedrano: (link) - x.com

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 2026-02-24 - An intervention mapping approach to closing the gap in maternal OUD and infant NOWS care: a study protocol - BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth - doi.org
• 2026-02-24 - Bromazolam Tablet Quantification and Analysis of Post-Mortem Cases From the National Programme on Substance Use Mortality (NPSUM). - PubMed - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
• 2026-02-25 - Convenience, rapport and skill: effective rural hepatitis C treatment, qualitative findings from a mobile harm reduction-informed tele-medicine intervention in Northern New England, 2022–2024 - Harm Reduction Journal - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

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Update Notes

February 26, 2026 (#c51636f) — 3 additions...scanning Substancy blog becuase they have interesting harm reduction technology posts, adding some filtering to the Academic section to prevent false positives slipping through, now doing sentiment-specific scans of social media discourse. Want to consistently report out on what people are saying about HR, for and against. I love feedback and requests – contact@christianarthur.tech

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