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📰 News Media

• 💊 [National] Drug and Substance Abuse | Fox News - foxnews.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🧭 Joining harm reduction with Know Your Rights, mutual aid fairs, and ICE engagement workshops to deliver integrated harm reduction services and protections in one event setting. - bsky.app
• 🤝 Mutual aid and harm reduction integration in community events with practical supports (food, hygiene, clothing, NAS supplies) and Know Your Rights to engage with ICE, representing a scalable community-based delivery model. - bsky.app
• 💡 Tobacco harm reduction debate framing and cross-application to broader health policy, highlighting data-driven debates on safer alternatives and regulatory models; potential pilot for cross-sector THR policy pilots. - bsky.app

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 📚 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
• 🧪 1/2 “Is tobacco harm reduction part of tobacco control? The goal of all tobacco policy is harm reduction - nothing else. That is coded into the objective (Article 3) of the FCTC” @clivebates.bsky.social @profglantz.com @drugpolicy.org @publichealthaus.bsky.social @apsad.bsky.social - bsky.app

🏙 City Updates

• ✨NEW✨ [Boston, MA] - January 6, 2026 - Boston Recognizes International Overdose Awareness Day - boston.gov
• 💊 - [Nashville, TN] - November 20, 2025 - Metro Public Health Department Announces New Naloxone Vending Machine Locations - nashville.gov
• 💊 - [Dallas, TX] - October 8, 2025 - Dallas County Announces Expansion of Overdose Response Team to Five Cities - dallascounty.org
• 💊 - [Minneapolis, MN] - October 7, 2025 - Third NARCAN6 vending machine installed to broaden community access - minneapolismn.gov

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