Harm Reduction Briefing — Jul 13, 2026
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📰 News Media
- 💉 [New York] N-Propionitrile Brorphine is here - recoveryreview.blog
- 🧠 [Massachusetts] Massachusetts House Advances Psychedelic Therapy Pilot Program - filtermag.org
- 🚧 [International] A U.S.-Mexico Impasse Will Test How Far the Trump Administration Will Go to Fight Drug Trade - propublica.org
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
Innovation
- 🧪 Just to emphasize Regina's points: 👉 Drug markets evolve faster than policy - we can't just be reactionary 👉 Reduction in fatalities alone is not success 👉 We need: community-based drug checking, robust harm... - @triciac13 on LinkedIn
- 🤖 Day 160. 160 days sober. 35 years of struggling. For every one of those 160 days I've been building Horizon OS — an AI-powered life operating system for people navigating addiction recovery. The $200 by Day 200... - @Horizon_Life_OS on X
Opposition Views
🏙 City Updates
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📚 Academic Research
- 💊 Community Pharmacist Perspectives on Observing and Dispensing Methadone for Opioid Use Disorder: Cross-sectional Survey Study - Journal of Addiction Medicine - 2026-07-13 - doi.org
- 💊 Study: Typical methadone doses not adequate for fentanyl users - Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly - 2026-07-13 - doi.org
- 🧠 Benefits of a sustained community-based psychiatric intervention on viral exposure among people who inject drugs: The ANRS Drive-Mind 2 cohort study in Hai Phong, Vietnam - PLOS mental health. - 2026-07-08 - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
- No hits in Law and Policy today.
💸 Funding (Click to expand)
Current
- 🛠️ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis - Preventing Youth Overdose: Treatment, Recovery, Education, Awareness and Training - Deadline: Jul 16, 2026
- 🛠️ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis - Rural Opioid Technical Assistance Centers - Deadline: Jul 16, 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.
Newsletter Improvements
July 13, 2026 (#a6fff24) - Merge pull request #15 from christian-arthur/codex/newsapi-timeout-retry
Retrying NewsAPI timeouts without aborting briefing I love feedback and requests - [email protected]