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📰 News Media

• 💊 [IJ Iowa City?, IA] JoCo Public Health to spend $46,000 in the next fiscal year on harm reduction vending machines program. - dailyiowan.com
• 💊 [Grey-Bruce, Ontario] Grey-Bruce drug overdoses and related deaths plummet - owensoundsuntimes.com
• 🧭 [National] FilterMag Archives - Filter - filtermag.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 📚 21 peer-reviewed articles. 86 expert authors. One year of evidence on critical developments in psychedelics, cannabis, harm reduction, and drug policy worldwide. We’ve summarised the key findings from DSPL in 2025 to help you stay on top of the debates defining 2026. drugscience.org.uk/d... - bsky.app
• 🛰️ I’m also a constituent and Rep. Lynch voter. I do have some issues with the police as an active protestor against police brutality affecting Black and Brown people. I also work with harm reduction police, currently, on Mass and Cass. - bsky.app
• 🧪 Social Spin Laundromat in Mesa is hosting a free community conversation on harm reduction and overdose prevention on Jan 29. If this affects you or your community, attend to learn about tools like Naloxone and fentanyl test strips. #MesaAZ #PublicHealth - bsky.app

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🔴 Actual policy: keeping the focus on substance use as a public health issue, not criminalizing users and harm reduction strategies for IV users. But eminently and pragmatic sensible approaches are spun into 'the Green Party want to legalise all drugs!!!' Depressing. - bsky.app
• 🟢 21 peer-reviewed articles. 86 expert authors. One year of evidence on critical developments in psychedelics, cannabis, harm reduction, and drug policy worldwide. We’ve summarised the key findings from DSPL in 2025 to help you stay on top of the debates defining 2026. drugscience.org.uk/d... - 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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