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📰 News Media

• 💊 [Boston, MA] Boston expands overdose prevention services in 2025 - example.com
• 🧪 [Sacramento, CA] California pilots new drug checking program - example.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 💬 pro-pedophile and pro-zoophile spaces are very self-congratulatory, and if someone's in those spaces and identifies as anti-contact they're shunned for "not being a real zoo" or what have you. that is not a place adequately set up for harm reduction, and that's why laelaps has her labelled - bsky.app
• 🕵️ UN OD: state-of-the-art tools to detect and dismantle online fentanyl markets; coordinated international tech-tools collaboration for online drug markets monitoring. - x.com
• 🧪 Public Health Vending Machine pilot program in Chicago distributing harm reduction supplies (Narcan, fentanyl test strips, etc.) via library kiosks. - x.com

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 💊 That should work well! Dispensing more addictive, diverted, abused opioids by telephone! https://t.co/YiGYfcyQJ3 More street currency for fentanyl! https://t.co/ak3JDtL9Jk What could go wrong? https://t.co/KTxnmTRXS8 In Florida? https://t.co/Lyj2pWHgCF https://t.co/RtShe7V45f - x.com
• 📚 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

• ✨NEW✨ [Nashville, TN] - December 30, 2025 - City launches naloxone vending machines - example.com
• 📊 - [Las Vegas, NV] - December 20, 2025 - County publishes overdose dashboard update - example.com

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