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📰 News Media

• 🎰 [National] Chasing the High: Why Gambling Disorder Belongs in the Addiction Conversation - linkedin.com
• 🍷 [National] A government-commissioned study found drinking risks. US guidelines didn’t feature its findings - apnews.com
• 🌿 [Chicago, Illinois] Chicago City Council committee backs crackdown on selling weed near schools, parks - chicago.suntimes.com
• 💊 [National] Are Republicans turning against medications for treating opioid addiction? - statnews.com
• 💉 [International] 20 Years After Reform, Can Mauritius Build on its Harm Reduction Legacy? - talkingdrugs.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 My Journey with Alcohol, Trauma, and Recovery It started when I was 24, during the COVID-19 lockdowns. At the time, I was taking sertraline for depression, but I was also living with undiagnosed PTSD. I was working... - @doomscroller28 on Bluesky

Innovation

• 🗞️ A month after installing these refurbished newspaper stands filled with naloxone, almost 900 cartons have been dispensed. Last week there were zero fatal opioid overdoses. It’s possible one of those cartons saved a... - @zellieimani on X
• 🧠 The appeal of asking AI about your drugs is obvious: instant, private, no judgment. The problem is that it has no way of knowing what's actually in your bag, and the answers cannot always be trusted. The... - @BunkPolice on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Someone can believe: Soccer hooliganism is bad. Bar fights are bad. Public drug use is bad. Supervised consumption sites are bad policy. There is no contradiction. You’re assuming supervised consumption sites are... - @printer_punk on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 💉 Case Report: Reintroduction of winged infusion sets to needle syringe programs - advancing equity in harm reduction - Frontiers in Psychiatry - 2026-06-10 - doi.org
• 🏠 Final cut of harm reduction in housing delivered in HUD NOFO last week - Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly - 2026-06-08 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

State Laws

• 📜 [California] Relative to World No Tobacco Day. - openstates.org

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Current

• 💸 Health Resources and Services Administration - Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP)-Impact - Deadline: Jul 8, 2026
• 💸 Health Resources and Services Administration - Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP)-Planning - Deadline: Jul 8, 2026

📣 Activism

• No activism updates found.

Update Notes

June 9, 2026 (#b8363a8) — Patching error in NY Times fetch which disrupted run. I love feedback and requests – [email protected]

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