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📰 News Media

• 📊 [National] The U.S. Counties Most Affected by the Opioid Crisis - 247wallst.com
• 💊 [National] Fentanyl, Involved in My Son’s Death, Is No “Weapon of Mass Destruction” - filtermag.org
• ⚖️ [Ohio] American Kratom Association Expresses Profound Disappointment ... - pr.portlandtribune.com
• 🧠 [Boston, Massachusetts] Patriots WR Kayshon Boutte credited for ‘changing lives’ with essay on gambling addiction - bostonherald.com
• ⚖️ [National] Federal Prosecutors Confirm Levi Miles Distributed Fentanyl That Caused David Aylor’s Death - fitsnews.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🏥 Idea of harm-reduction potential in universal care framing: post argues universal care as harm reduction at scale; signals policy framing for data-driven, scalable care models. - bsky.app
• 🧰 Acknowledge on-ground harm reduction in housing: Chicago-Chicago partners sending HRT Harm Reduction Kits to Twin Cities for trans undocumented folks; cross-city solidarity, intersectional supply-chains. - bsky.app
• 📚 Public-health oriented publication noting design of drug policy with a public health approach; suggests evidence-based policy design and dissemination (pubmed link). - bsky.app

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🚫 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
• 📚 Very excited to share a new publication! We discuss the importance of designing drug policy with a public health approach, laying out the evidence for our argument. I'm honored to have been a part of this paper, and to have learned from my incredible coauthors. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41199684/ - 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
• 🚑 - [Dallas, TX] - October 8, 2025 - Dallas County Announces Expansion of Overdose Response Team to Five Cities - dallascounty.org

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