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📰 News Media

• 💊 [Burlington, VT] Four Vermont health centers receive federal certification to expand mental health, substance use services - wcax.com
• 🚬 [San Francisco, CA] The Glas Ceiling: Gold, Sapphire and Vaping Surveillance - filtermag.org
• 🌿 [South Hadley, MA] South Hadley considers lifting eight-year marijuana facility ban - gazettenet.com
• 🏗️ [National] Rates of opioid toxicity deaths highest among construction and trades workers, study finds - medicalxpress.com
• 💊 [National] What America got wrong about drug addiction - washingtonpost.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 🛟 The good news is, within two weeks or less I'll be dried out and never jumping back in the hole no matter what. From there I'll be able to attend peer support groups at the outpatient rehab centre. Who knows, maybe... - @goodnewsrepeater on Bluesky

Innovation

• 📦 Oldham County, KY is spending $65,000 on ONEboxes that they are going to GIVE AWAY to outgoing inmates and visitors at the detention center. WHY??!! They could just put the naloxone into a bag that costs 5 cents!!!... - @triciac13 on LinkedIn
• 🛟 Cooling centers, shelters, libraries, recovery spaces, hotels, transit hubs and community events should be ready. That means visible water access, staff trained to recognize overdose and heat illness, naloxone... - @ActionForOD on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 REPORT CARD time. Hows he doing? Daniel Lurie campaigned on closing open drug markets and restoring order. Lurie declared emergencies and changed city policy away from pure harm reduction (JJ hates that program) and... - @Just_Jeze on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 🧪 Leveraging fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy for community drug checking to bridge clinical care and harm reduction services: case report - Addiction Science & Clinical Practice - 2026-07-25 - doi.org
• 🧭 Cohort profile: Walking for harm reduction through street engagement (WHiSE 2.0) - PLOS One - 2026-07-24 - doi.org
• 💊 Continuity of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in States With and Without Medicaid Prescription Cap Policies - Medical Care - 2026-07-21 - 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

• 📣 Shatterproof - Contact North Carolina House Representative to support SB 59
• 🖥️ National Homelessness Law Center - Register for Housing Not Handcuffs webinar on Trump homelessness order
• 🧡 Mobilize Recovery - Sign up to volunteer at Narcan at Night 2026 in Las Vegas

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Featured Resource

UNC Street Drug Analysis Lab

Browse anonymous drug-checking results or learn how programs can submit samples for mail-based confirmatory testing.

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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