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📰 News Media

• 🧬 [National] Pregnancy and Substance Use: A Harm Reduction Toolkit - harmreduction.org
• 💉 [National] Getting Off: The Basics of Safer Injection - harmreduction.org
• 💊 [National] Potential Health Complications of Injection Drug Use - harmreduction.org
• 🧬 [Baltimore, Maryland] Praise for violence reduction in Baltimore - thedailyrecord.com
• 💊 [National] EXCLUSIVE: Penny Stock Scienture's Partner Secures US Patent For Highest Dosage Naloxone Spray For Emergency Opioid Overdose Treatment - benzinga.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🏗️ Thistle safer drug consumption facility in Glasgow operating daily; community trust-building and service uptake evidence; potential model for UK/US expansion - bsky.app
• 📚 Delineation of harm reduction in homelessness services through Hannah Piggott webinar slide set (potential cross-city adaptation for women’s homelessness/harm reduction integration) - bsky.app
• 🧭 Emergency harm reduction delivery via online platform for organizing peer networks; mentions peer foundational training program returning in NYC with in-person sessions (potential replication in other cities) - bsky.app

Harm Reduction Discourse

• ⚠️ Nightmare blunt rotation Deeply alarming to discover these two know to each other. Demonstrates how high up & resourced the organized opposition to harm reduction & housing first policy reaches. youtu.be/PHSwhKjKSMI?... - bsky.app
• 🎯 Interested in work on drug policy, harm reduction, or human rights? The IDPC Jobs Board features exciting opportunities — currently on #comms & #evaluation. Check them out: - 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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