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📰 News Media

• 🪥 [Iowa City, Iowa] JoCo Public Health to spend $46,000 in the next fiscal year on harm reduction vending machines program. - dailyiowan.com
• 🫁 [Columbia, South Carolina] FITSForum: S.C. Lawmakers Must Prioritize Tobacco Harm Reduction - fitsnews.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🥤 Cannabis-Infused Drinks Offer Consumers A 'Harm Reduction' Alternative To Alcohol, Study Shows: "There are plausible reasons to suspect that cannabis beverages provide a unique opportunity for alcohol harm reduction." - bsky.app
• 🤝 New collab in @deppjournal.bsky.social, Lead: Mostafa Finding show we need targeted, age-appropriate harm reduction and alternative service delivery models. @jasonferris22.bsky.social @chenealpuljevic.bsky.social et al. @uqchsr.bsky.social @cretobacco.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0968... - bsky.app
• 🧰 Today in Portland, Cascadian Action volunteers provided supplies to our houseless neighbors, including warmth kits, IV drug harm reduction kits, and various other useful goodies. If you're looking to make a difference, check out our website! - bsky.app

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 👍 Can youth protection and harm reduction coexist? Yes. New Zealand proves you can restrict youth access while helping adult smokers switch. This is balanced policy done right. #YouthProtection #BalancedPolicy www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO26... - bsky.app
• 💢 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

🏙 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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