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📰 News Media

• 💊 [Chicago, Illinois] Chicago and Cook County again see fewer opioid deaths in 2025 - chicagotribune.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🏥 Make of this what you will: proposal to put a harm reduction center on Madison’s East Side faces pushback and delays; potential for a first-in-city delivery model if approved (harm reduction center site) - bsky.app
• ♾️ Many posts advocate safe consumption/safe supply and harm reduction as a continuum; while not a concrete program, it signals ongoing push for integrated harm-reduction services and parallel health supports - bsky.app
• 💊 Local cross-platform discussions about empowering harm-reduction through community organizing and Narcan distribution; practical frontline signal though not a specific new program - bsky.app

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 👍 harm reduction is a very effective policy. perfect the enemy of good. - bsky.app
• 🗂️ Here's a run that worked. 1/2 for alt text Apologies for the image duplication in #2, too much text for one alt-text. - bsky.app

🏙 City Updates

• 💰 - [Portland, OR] - December 19, 2025 - Board approves budget modification to backfill $2.4 million in CareOregon behavioral health cuts - multco.us
• 💊 - [Nashville, TN] - November 20, 2025 - Metro Public Health Department Announces New Naloxone Vending Machine Locations - nashville.gov
• 🚭 - [El Paso, TX] - November 20, 2025 - City Recognizes National Quit Smoking Day - elpasotexas.gov
• 📉 - [New York, NY] - October 28, 2025 - Mayor Adams Announces Opioid Overdose Deaths in City Drop Significantly for First Time in Past Decade - nyc.gov

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