Harm Reduction Briefing — Jul 08, 2026
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📰 News Media
- 💉 [Lewiston, Maine] Lewiston residents will vote on one-to-one needle exchange this November - wmtw.com
- 🏥 [Chicago, Illinois] Illinois prison healthcare still poor as state goes 1 year without long-term medical provider - chicago.suntimes.com
- 💊 [National] Uptake of buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder is highly uneven across the United States - medicalxpress.com
- 💊 [National] SAMHSA Rolls Out Funds for OUD Meds, Says That’s Not Harm Reduction - filtermag.org
- 💰 [National] $281M Up for Grabs as Part of Trump’s Great American Recovery Initiative to Support Addiction Treatment - bhbusiness.com
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
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Innovation
- 📈 "Synthetic-control estimates show that both decriminalization regimes sharply reduced drug arrests and were followed by sustained increases in overdose mortality" (link) - @joecooprider on X
- 📱 "That would be such a game changer": a qualitative study of the acceptability and feasibility of a digital harm reduction support tool among people who use drugs link.springer.com/article/10.1... - @carceralabolition on Bluesky
Opposition Views
🏙 City Updates
📚 Academic Research
- 💊 New alcohol warnings outperform the current U.S. warning in a national survey experiment - Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs - 2025-09-22 - doi.org
- 🎥 Fentanyl Overdose Harm Reduction Intervention: A Pretest-Posttest Study Among High School Students in Southern California - Health Promotion Practice - 2026-07-07 - doi.org
- 💉 Ketamine harm reduction: Collaborative development of a prevention ecosystem using data from the northwest of England - 2026-07-07 - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
State Laws
- 📜 [Louisiana] FEES/LICENSES/PERMITS: Provides relative to vapor products, alternative nicotine products, and modified risk tobacco products (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note) - openstates.org
- 📜 [Pennsylvania] ...amending the act of November 3, 2022 (P.L.2158, No.158), known as the Overdose Mapping Act, further providing for definitions and for establishment... - openstates.org
City Ordinances
- 🏠 [Oakland, CA] City Resolution 26-0691: ...Of Providing Interim Shelter, Transitional Housing, Encampment Closure Operations, Addiction Treatment, Job Readiness, And Other Related Homelessness Services... - oakland.legistar.com
- 🏙️ [Oakland, CA] Informational Report 26-0869: Subject: Encampment Abatement Management Team Operations From: Councilmember Houston Recommendation: Receive An Informational Report From The Encampment Management... - oakland.legistar.com
💸 Funding (Click to expand)
Current
- 🏘️ Health Resources and Services Administration - Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP)-Impact - Deadline: Jul 8, 2026
- 🧭 Health Resources and Services Administration - Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP)-Planning - Deadline: Jul 8, 2026
📣 Activism
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Featured Resource
SafeSpot is a 24/7, peer-run overdose prevention hotline. You can call in when you are going to be using drugs alone and SafeSpot will stay on the phone with you while you use, and alert an emergency contact in case of overdose. SafeSpot is free, confidential, and available nationwide. Call 24/7 at 1-800-972-0590.
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