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📰 News Media

• 🌧️ [National] Severe flooding linked to increased deaths from opioid use in rural Appalachia - medicalxpress.com
• 💊 [National] The Quiet Squeeze: How 2026 Is Reshaping the Economics of Addiction Treatment - bhbusiness.com
• 🏥 [National] Tale of Two Cities: SUD Dealmaking Market Divided into Haves and Have Nots - bhbusiness.com
• 🫙 [National] What’s Behind the UK’s Migration to Nicotine Pouches? - filtermag.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💊 YEP. Including methadone maintenance therapy. Addiction is public health not a criminal justice. In my former flat one of my neighbours was an addict, and obviously that's not ideal, but without housing he would've... - @samwhyte on Bluesky

Innovation

• 🧑 When someone decides they're ready for addiction treatment, timing is everything. R Street’s Robert Melvin explains that delays of even a few days can mean the difference between entering recovery and returning to... - @RSI on X
• 💉 💊 Opioid agonist therapy (OAT) is an evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorder that's associated with about a 50% reduction in overdose risk. Between 2021 and 2025, long-acting injectable Buprenorphine... - @RecovExcel on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Here’s Newsom’s revised ‘housing first’ rules that apply to Recovery Housing Programs and justified his veto. Basically, if you relapse in sober living, they can’t kick you out and harm reduction is the way. It’s... - @xonkd7 on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 💊 Enhancing Access to Methadone Treatment in Three HEALing Communities Study Sites: A Spatial and Geostatistical Study - Substance Use & Misuse - 2026-07-19 - doi.org
• 💊 Expanding Patient Access to Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder Through Pharmacist Independent Prescriptive Authority - Substance Use &amp Addiction Journal - 2026-07-19 - doi.org
• 🩺 Enhancing healthcare engagement to increase access to hepatitis C treatment: a mixed-methods study of barriers, facilitators, and opportunities within populations of people who use drugs and sex workers in British Columbia, Canada - cIRcle (University of British Columbia) - 2026-07-17 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

• No hits in Law and Policy today.

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Current

• 🚑 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis - Emergency Department Alternatives to Opioids Program - Deadline: Jul 27, 2026
• 🚑 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis - First Responders-Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act - Deadline: Jul 27, 2026

📣 Activism

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Featured Resource

Philadelphia Medetomidine Response Guidance

Philadelphia's evolving guidance about medetomidine covers breathing-first overdose response, severe withdrawal warning signs, early treatment, monitoring, and transfer criteria.

Newsletter Improvements

July 21, 2026 (#82daa29) - Adding diagnostics for the twice-weekly roll-up. I love feedback and requests - [email protected]

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