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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

• 🫚 Frederick County has installed a new health vending machine offering free naloxone, fentanyl and xylazine test strips, hygiene and wound-care kits to expand harm-reduction tools and boost access to life-saving resources for residents. - x.com
• 🤝 Yes! This, always and forever! I fundamentally strive for kindness in how I live. That includes holding people accountable if they cause harm and creating pathways for them to repair it. (This is, at its core, an anarchist principle—an insistence grounding the social contract in harm reduction.) - bsky.app
• 🧪 Nearly 60% of overdose deaths between March 2024 and 2025 involved fentanyl. Drug checking tools like test strips can help reduce overdose risk. States can take steps to make these lifesaving tools more available. (link) - x.com

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 👍 “Yes, the Biden administration's policies—such as expanding access to naloxone, harm reduction tools like fentanyl test strips, treatment flexibilities for opioids, and international cooperation to reduce fentanyl precursors—contributed to the decline” - x.com
• 💬 I mean Paris Marx is an unabashed tankie advocating for “dictatorship, but like, in my favor.” He sees social media as a “social contagion” which conveniently is not something that can be measured (as opposed to something like “reduction in teen self-harm via public policy on algorithms”) - 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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