Harm Reduction Briefing — Jul 31, 2026
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📰 News Media
- 💉 [National] How to get good at saving lives and preventing overdose - opioiddata.org
- 💉 [Seattle, WA] The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs - theatlantic.com
- 🍃 [Austin, TX] Texas is banning several THC products. What will still be legal on July 31? - abc13.com
- 🏛️ [National] No One’s Really Expecting the “Fentanyl Dealers Act” to Make Sense - filtermag.org
- 💊 [National] Researchers call for urgent overhaul of pain care amid opioid crisis - medicalxpress.com
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
- No posts found today.
Innovation
- 📈 I agree that the evidence supporting many recovery interventions remains limited. Our work addresses a different question. Rather than testing whether a specific recovery strategy works, we propose Recovery Latency... - @alvaroalaor on X
- 🤖 Designing digital health interventions for opioid use disorder: Perspectives on iENDURE. (link) - @digitalhealthev on X
Opposition Views
🏙 City Updates
📚 Academic Research
- 🩺 Addressing the needs of people who inhale opioids and/or stimulants - BMC Public Health - 2026-07-29 - doi.org
- ⚕️ From potential to pause – missed opportunities in harm reduction: lessons learned and perspectives from a discontinued implementation study among young men who have sex with men in Thailand - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-07-29 - doi.org
- 💉 What’s in your heroin? The importance of drug composition monitoring in the synthetic opioid Era - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-07-29 - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
City Ordinances
- 🏙️ [Milwaukee, WI] Resolution urging the Common Council to adopt the Youth Council’s anti-nicotine scholarship contest. - milwaukee.legistar.com
- 🏙️ [Milwaukee, WI] Resolution relating to the marketing of nicotine pouches to youth. - milwaukee.legistar.com
💸 Funding (Click to expand)
Current
- 🔬 National Institutes of Health - Establishing a Center for the Advancement of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Pharmacotherapeutics through Training and Preclinical Support (U54 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) - Deadline: Sep 30, 2026
- 🔬 National Institutes of Health - Limited Competition: Growing Great Ideas: Research Education Course in Entrepreneurship and Product Development for Researchers Studying Drug Use, Drug Misuse, and Drug Addiction (UE5 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) - Deadline: Oct 1, 2026
📣 Activism
- No activism updates found.
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