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📰 News Media

• 🏥 [San Diego, California] Officials believe San Diego is well positioned as cities compete for dwindling state homeless dollars - sandiegouniontribune.com
• 💊 [Austin, Texas] Austin - Community Impact - communityimpact.com
• 💊 [Portland, Oregon] Oregon’s Crashing Pot Prices Put Drug Treatment at Risk - wweek.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🧪 www.drugscience.org.uk/reverse-spin... new blog showing perverse advice giving in harm reduction areas - scary - bsky.app
• 🫁 Providing inhalation devices to people who smoke crack “could reduce drug-related harms, improve engagement and provide a non-judgemental and inclusive point of access Kathryn Ashton et al in Harm Reduction Journal link.springer.com/article/10.1... - bsky.app
• 🧭 Harm reduction advice applies no matter what you're taking. Start low, go slow: Try a little bit of a new batch and wait to see what the effects/strength is before you go again. ⌛ Carry Naloxone. 🤝 Avoid using alone. 🫂 Test/check when possible. ✅ - bsky.app

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 💥 Australia wastes millions on enforcement as NZ proves pragmatic harm reduction works by ⬇️adult daily smoking to 6.8%-one of lowest rates globally. Oz prohibition created $A4 billion illicit market, >200 fire-bombings, gang warfare @caphra.bsky.social says=policy failure.Press release: bit.ly/4jYrsfh - bsky.app
• 🫱 Public policy should be based on how humans actually behave, not on moral fantasies. Safer spaces, honest conversations, and harm reduction protect everyone. Criminalization protects no one. - bsky.app

🏙 City Updates

• 🫗 - [Baltimore, MD] - January 22, 2026 - Health Commissioner Declares Code Blue Extreme Cold Alert for Friday Night through Tuesday - health.baltimorecity.gov
• ❄️ - [Baltimore, MD] - January 18, 2026 - Health Commissioner Declares Code Blue Extreme Cold Alert for Monday Night through Wednesday Morning - health.baltimorecity.gov
• 🤝 - [Baltimore, MD] - December 8, 2025 - Baltimore City Health Department Joins the Northeast Public Health Collaborative - health.baltimorecity.gov
• 💉 - [Baltimore, MD] - December 5, 2025 - BCHD Reiterates Importance of Hepatitis B Birth Dose for All Newborns: Guidance Aligns with the American Academy of Pediatrics - health.baltimorecity.gov

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