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📰 News Media

• 🛐 [National] Trump's Faith-Based Push Threatens Standard Addiction Treatment - thinkglobalhealth.org
• 🍃 [Kansas City, MO] KC kratom manufacturer American Shaman to stop sales in Missouri, ending lawsuit - kansascity.com
• 💉 [San Francisco, CA] Open-air drug markets a reminder: much work still to do in San Francisco’s Tenderloin - nypost.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 my weed sobriety journey has been hard i hit 1 year sober then relapsed a ton in my gallbladder and top surgery recovery but i am proudly rocking with 27 days weed free - @guypussy on Bluesky

Innovation

• 🧪 "preponderance of the evidence suggests these sites are able to provide sterile equipment, overdose reversal, and linkage to medical care for addiction, in the virtual absence of significant direct risks like... - @melrod42 on X
• 📊 New update to our Opioid Indicator Tool! This update includes 2025 annual data, as well as monthly/quarterly data up to December 2025. The Harm Reduction dashboard also includes data for Q1 2026. Learn more at... - @odprn on Bluesky

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Just left a meeting at @samhsagov. The winds of change are here. No more permissive harm reduction. The nation is now focused on getting people off drugs, rebuilding families and promoting recovery. The days of the... - @Twolfrecovery on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 🧪 Beyond the test: employee perspectives on the characteristics of drug checking services - Drugs Habits and Social Policy - 2026-06-05 - doi.org
• 🚬 Provision of safer smoking equipment to reduce health harms and enhance service engagement among people who use crack: a realist informed review - International Journal of Drug Policy - 2026-06-01 - doi.org
• 💊 Provision of harm reduction services in community pharmacies: Findings from an Australian national sample - International Journal of Drug Policy - 2026-06-01 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

State Laws

• 📜 [Arizona] alternative nicotine products; regulation. - openstates.org
• 📜 [Arizona] controlled substances prescription monitoring program - openstates.org

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Current

• 💸 Centers for Disease Control - NCIPC - Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) - Deadline: Jun 8, 2026
• 💸 Health Resources and Services Administration - Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP)-Impact - Deadline: Jul 8, 2026

📣 Activism

• ✊ Housing Not Handcuffs Campaign - Join the Housing Not Handcuffs campaign against anti-homeless policies
• 📝 National Alliance to End Homelessness - Submit a public comment to defend HUD Equal Access Rule

Update Notes

June 2, 2026 (#cde6f5a) — Skip blocked Substack feeds in Actions I love feedback and requests – [email protected]

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