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📰 News Media

• 💊 [Dallas, Texas] Dallas Opioid Response Team Finds Hope, Impact Despite Rising Overdose Calls - dallasobserver.com
• 🏥 [Frederick, Maryland] Frederick County installs new health vending machine, featuring naloxone, fentanyl test strips - wtop.com
• ⚖️ [Arizona] Arizona changes fentanyl penalties in an effort to reduce overdoses - kyma.com
• 💊 [National] SAMHSA Restores Thousands of Active Grants, a Day After It Cut ... - filtermag.org
• 🏥 [Maryland] Maryland Scrubs the Term "Harm Reduction" From Key Grant Program - filtermag.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🏳️ What I intend to say to Bristol City Council tomorrow: As long as waiting lists are measured in years, well-informed, community-led harm-reduction DIY HRT will remain safer than being left without any support at all. - bsky.app
• ❄️ Workshop at Earth’s Refinery Coop, facilitated by 4B Harm Reduction Society, on first aid basics in cold weather. Jan. 24, 7-9 p.m., registration required (qr code in poster). #yeg - bsky.app
• 📚 Are you in America? Are you aware of how Black Americans were beaten teargassed, maimed and lynched when they pursued this legal strategy of harm reduction until the composition of the court turned in their favor? Do you know who Plessy was? Here's a book: www.amazon.com/Literacy-Rac... - 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
• 👎 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

• 💊 - [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
• 🫂 - [Austin, TX] - August 29, 2025 - City of Austin Highlighting Local Information and Resources for International Overdose Awareness Day - austintexas.gov

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