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📰 News Media

• 🧯 [National] Planning Ahead: Toolkit Helps Save Lives During Overdose Spikes - cdcfoundation.org
• 🏛️ [National] HHS Is Asking for Public Comment on Addiction Policy. Harm Reduction Needs to Show Up. - chadsabora.substack.com
• 💉 [National] DEA Formalizes End to X-Waiver; Expands Window to Administer MOUD Injectables - bhbusiness.com
• 🤰 [Denver, CO] How Colorado hospitals are caring for pregnant patients with substance use disorders by overcoming stigma - theconversation.com
• 🍃 [National] Legal-Marijuana States Moving to Increase Possession Limits - filtermag.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 I kicked a bad pill addiction myself about 4 years ago by going on buprenorphine. But I tapered too fast and relapsed but this time around I've been tapering for over 2 years which sounds crazy but it's just the... - @ThothCernunnos on X

Innovation

• 💬 Findings from the Massachusetts JCOIN 1.0 Research Hub show that providing MOUD in jails improves treatment engagement & reduces overdose & reincarceration after release. Participants had a 52% lower risk of fatal... - @jcoinctc on X
• 🧪 Overdose Reversal and Testing: Narcan (Naloxone) kits to reverse opioid overdoses, along with fentanyl and xylazine testing strips so users can check their supply for lethal contaminants. - @JimDand49783668 on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 You should have included mandatory treatment as one of the choices. Housing first with no mandatory treatment is a joke. Also, allowing drug use in these tiny homes is insane. Seattle is a dumpster fire. - @SeaTacMAGA on X

🏙 City Updates

• 📧 - [Baltimore, MD] - June 10, 2026 - Health Commissioner Declares First Code Red Extreme Heat Alert for Thursday, June 11th and Friday, June 12th - newsletter - view newsletter online for more info
• 📧 - [Altadena, CA] - June 10, 2026 - New Chapter Begins for Altadena Community Center Following Renovation and Recovery Efforts - newsletter - view newsletter online for more info

📚 Academic Research

• 🔬 Are you a robot? - 2026-06-10 - sciencedirect.com
• 💉 Funding Community Health Services for People Who Use Drugs in San Francisco: Determinants, challenges, and opportunities to improve implementation - SSM - Mental Health - 2026-06-06 - doi.org
• 💉 Take-home naloxone (THN) ownership among a community-based cohort of sex workers who use drugs in metro vancouver: longitudinal trends and structural determinants (2017–2024) - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-06-11 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

State Laws

• 📜 [Montana] Allow use of expired opioid antagonists - openstates.org

City Ordinances

• 🏙️ [Jacksonville, FL] Resolution 2026-0415-A: ...County Resident, as a Member of the Opioid & Substance Use Disorder Grants Committee, as a Peer Specialist... - jaxcityc.legistar.com

💸 Funding (Click for more)

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

• 📣 The National Council for Mental Wellbeing - Send a letter supporting CCBHC legislation to Congress
• ✊ Housing Not Handcuffs Campaign - Join the Housing Not Handcuffs campaign to oppose anti-homeless policies

Update Notes

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