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📰 News Media

• 💊 [National] US Overdose Deaths Drop as Fentanyl Supply Weakens, Study Finds - financialpost.com
• ⚖️ [Columbus, Ohio] American Kratom Association Expresses Profound Disappointment ... - pr.portlandtribune.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 💊 Opioid overdoses can happen on any campus. Do you know how to respond? Come to our Harm Reduction & Naloxone training on Thu Jan 21 at St James from 2-5 PM. Learn what opioids are, how to identify if someone overdosed, and what to do. Learn to administer nasal spray and injection Naloxone. - bsky.app
• 🎓 Join our webinar, where we will explore the main human rights standards on access to health and harm reduction in prisons and share lessons learned from advocacy experience at a regional and international level. Register here: https://bit.ly/ConnectingMovements - bsky.app
• 🧭 Two words: Harm Reduction. - bsky.app

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 💚 For sure. Working in and around drug policy and harm reduction, it is a daily outrage for me that incredible life-saving evidence is given equal footing with "drugs are bad" as a crisis of death escalates around us. - bsky.app
• 🚫 Mayor Wu’s administration @mayorwu.boston.gov is trying to ban street outreach at Mass & Cass, targeting the very people who help street based sex workers and drug users stay alive. This is cruel abandonment by policy. We will continue our street outreach despite this. - bsky.app

🏙 City Updates

• 🧠 - [Portland, OR] - December 19, 2025 - Board approves budget modification backfill $2.4 million in CareOregon behavioral health cuts - multco.us
• 🏠 - [Detroit, MI] - November 25, 2025 - City expands Homelessness Response Resources to keep residents safe during cold weather months - detroitmi.gov
• 💊 - [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

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