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📰 News Media

• 💉 [Chattanooga, Tennessee] A nurse stole fentanyl and AI missed it, state records say - cbsnews.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 We need to overcome "addiction" There is no way to divorce the word "addiction" from the legacy of the moral and disease models. Try as we might, addiction will always carry the notion of the corrupt, or the... - @azzy-mae on LinkedIn

Innovation

• 🏥 The San Francisco VA Health Care System (SFVAHCS) is the primary VA facility driving this initiative in California. It launched a pioneering Harm Reduction and Syringe Services Program (SSP) to provide sterile needles - @Acruzn808 on X
• 🧪 The SFVAHCS Harm Reduction & SSP •Services Provided: The program distributes sterile syringes, fentanyl test strips, safe-sex kits, and overdose-reversing naloxone. It also tests for HIV and hepatitis C, administers... - @Acruzn808 on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Mandatory inpatient treatment before housing should be the policy. Anybody that looks at the situation can see that the harm reduction policies and the enabling does not work. - @JerryCarrier1 on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 🧾 Community supervision during Oregon’s partial decriminalization Measure 110: Criminal legal system involvement, overdose, and naloxone access - Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports - 2026-06-01 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

State Laws

• 📜 [Delaware] AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATED TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES IN THE CITY OF NEWARK. - openstates.org

City Ordinances

• 🏙️ [New York, NY] Int 0727-2026: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the commissioner of homeless services coordinating with hospitals to make certain supplies available to discharged patients during certain weather events - legistar.council.nyc.gov
• 🏙️ [New York, NY] Int 0726-2026: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the commissioner of homeless services coordinating with hospitals to distribute informational materials on certain weather events to patients and make services directly available to discharged patients during such events - legistar.council.nyc.gov

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Current

• 💸 Centers for Disease Control - NCIPC - Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) - Deadline: Jun 8, 2026
• 💸 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis - Providers Clinical Support System – Substance Use Disorder Treatment (PCSS-SUD Treatment) - Deadline: Jun 15, 2026

📣 Activism

• 📣 National Harm Reduction Coalition - Contact Congress to reject budget cuts to HIV care
• 📣 Shatterproof - Urge Congress to support the School Access to Naloxone Act

Update Notes

May 29, 2026 (#423f4e3) — Doing some work under-the-hood, switching from Poetry to uv, speeding up the installs and overall runtime. I love feedback and requests – [email protected]

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