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📰 News Media

• 💊 [National, Ohio] American Kratom Association Expresses Profound Disappointment ... - pr.portlandtribune.com
• 💊 [National] Fentanyl, Involved in My Son's Death, Is No “Weapon of Mass ... - filtermag.org
• 💊 [Wikwemikong, Ontario] Police in Wikwemikong seize 'significant quantity' of fentanyl and cocaine - thesudburystar.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🎯 Song of the Week: Baltimore's only harm-reduction focused news source encouraging donations/subscription (mobtownredux) – potential data-driven outreach and community engagement channel. - bsky.app
• 🚨 How Trump’s ban on harm-reduction tools endangers communities in regions overwhelmed by addiction - bsky.app
• 🧠 Accidental Harm Reduction is welcomed. The more some of them talk, the more they talk themselves out I’m seeing 👁️ - 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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