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📰 News Media

• 🧪 [National] Pregnancy and Substance Use: A Harm Reduction Toolkit - harmreduction.org
• 🧭 [National] Safe(r) Drug Use 101 - National Harm Reduction Coalition - harmreduction.org
• 🏥 [El Cajon, California] El Cajon won’t store homeless people’s belongings after encampment clearings - sandiegouniontribune.com
• 🧪 [Maryland] Maryland Scrubs the Term "Harm Reduction" From Key Grant Program - filtermag.org
• 💊 [National] US overdose deaths fell through most of 2025, federal data reveals - thebusinessjournal.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🧭 Lack of explicit new signal elsewhere; note mentions of decriminalization pilot and its scaling challenges in BC as a potential indicator of policy experimentation in harm reduction implementation (decrim pilots and infrastructure needs). - bsky.app
• 🛍️ Harm reduction vending machines program by AIDS Care Ocean State, with additional services at their site. Potential for scaling/novel delivery of supplies and information. - bsky.app
• 📢 Public health framing of LTNs (local toxicology or harm reduction measures) as a policy tool needing effective communication; signals interest in improved messaging and community-based harm reduction adoption. - bsky.app

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🎉 Join Students for Sensible Drug Policy for our 🎉 Sensible Soirée🎉 , a pre-conference party for the Florida Harm Reduction Conference on Tuesday, January 27 from 7-10PM. Get your tickets now: secure.everyaction.com/cJchnLaDakWI... - bsky.app
• ⚠️ "No-lo drinks present risks to wider public health policy," the piece warns. Giving alcohol interests undue credit for contributing to a reduction in alcohol harm with no-los might allow them to pose as "contributors to reducing alcohol related harm". - 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
• 🏚️ - [Detroit, MI] - November 25, 2025 - City expands Homelessness Response Resources to keep residents safe during cold weather months - detroitmi.gov
• 💊 - [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

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