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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

• 🚐 Mobile, low-barrier care teams combining nurse, social worker, and case manager to visit communities and prevent crises (rural applicability). Represents proactive, on-site harm-reduction care modeling. - bsky.app
• 🧃 Public Health Vending Machines rollout as a scalable harm-reduction delivery model (24/7 access to supplies). Feasible at scale; pilot mention in Somerville example shows concrete implementation. - bsky.app
• 🎯 Public-health messaging framed as harm-reduction with critical lens on policy capture (civil-society dialogue pre-WHO EB158; linking tobacco/pharma to corporate capture). Proposes shift to safeguard public health integrity. - bsky.app

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🤝 The team at our Stirling-based service were delighted to welcome @mareetodd.bsky.social, Minister for Drugs & Alcohol Policy & Sport in Scotland, earlier this week. They discussed key interventions, challenges & the Minister expressed her commitment to harm reduction and drug death prevention. - bsky.app
• ⚠️ And now we're at that tipping point anyway. Democrat toothlessness and fragmentation has never posited meaningful policy changes or served as opposition to genocidal war hawks. If the only options are turbofascism and diet fascism, then you don't have a meaningful reduction of harm. - 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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