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📰 News Media

• 🤝 [Santa Cruz, California] Guest Commentary | Collaborations among local agencies bring in results - santacruzsentinel.com
• 🧭 [Austin, Texas] Austin - Community Impact - communityimpact.com
• 💊 [Boston, Massachusetts] Drug boat death toll hits 126 - bostonherald.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🧪 Hi friends! We're going to be at Shipwrecked for two days of drug checking and harm reduction yarns! We're open from 10am - 6pm on Friday and Saturday, so swing by the checking tent next to the Big House and say hi 😄 Drug checking is free, confidential, non-judgmental, and 100% legal💛 - bsky.app
• 🌱 New Zealand shows what evidence-based tobacco harm reduction actually looks like. Smoking is down fast. Youth smoking is at record lows. Youth vaping is also halved without banning vapes or cutting adults off from safer alternatives. Regulation worked. Moral panic didn’t. - bsky.app
• 🧬 1/10 🩺 NICOTINE POUCHES: THE NEW HARM REDUCTION BET? 🩺 After the #E-cigarette crisis, the #FDA is banking on a new strategy: streamlining approval for #NicotinePouches. Are they a safer alternative for smokers or a gateway for youth? JAMA reports #PublicHealth #HarmReduction #MedSky #SciSky - bsky.app

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🤝 And as an aside, I fully subscribe to the harm reduction theory when it comes to electoral politics. Of course voting for Kamala would be the better option for domestic policy The issue is that there’s something like 200 million voters out there and it’s up to the parties to convince them to vote - bsky.app
• ⚠️ Because the harm reduction equation when applied to voting is a fallacy. It’s higher risk than its wishfully thinking proponents admit (witness me voting for Biden in 2020 never assuming I would end up an accomplice in his genocide after he promised to stay out of wars in the Middle East). - bsky.app

🏙 City Updates

• 💊 - [Dallas, TX] - October 8, 2025 - Dallas County Announces Expansion of Overdose Response Team to Five Cities - dallascounty.org
• 🌡️ - [Phoenix, AZ] - September 29, 2025 - Heat Relief Network Wraps Up 2025 Season - maricopa.gov
• 💊 - [Austin, TX] - August 29, 2025 - City of Austin Highlighting Local Information and Resources for International Overdose Awareness Day - austintexas.gov

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