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📰 News Media

• 💰 [National] SAMHSA Announces $40 Million in Funding Opportunities to Prevent Addiction, and Address Child Trauma, Suicide, Mental Illness - samhsa.gov
• 🧪 [Seattle, WA] Don’t Be an Idiot—Test Your Drugs - thestranger.com
• 💊 [National] HHS Wants Input on Which Kinds of Treatment and Recovery to Fund - filtermag.org
• 📝 [National] Letter to the editor: Prohibiting 7-OH is a mistake - Washington Times - washingtontimes.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 I couldn’t agree with you more. Exactly my point. Housing is not the finish line. In fact my addiction worsened when I was indoors. It took four years of overdosing on my floor to attempt getting off of heroin. - @AmberRichmondSF on X

Innovation

• 🧪 Free dope too! • Drug checking / testing: Available as part of harm reduction at these sites and related services. • Prescribed safer supply programs: BC has no minimum age for access via a “mature minor” capacity... - @canadiandobie on X
• 💉 Intranasal Mucosal Atomiser Devices: A Novel Harm Reduction Intervention Hayden Green, Thileepan Naren, Brittany Chapman, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Sione Crawford, Dean Membrey (link) Monash Addiction Research Centre,... - @apsad-dar on Bluesky

Opposition Views

• 🚫 "Harm reduction" has failed. End needle giveaways and ban Narcan. - @PetMusicList on X

🏙 City Updates

• 🏕️ - [San Francisco, CA] - June 9, 2026 - Mayor Lurie Announces Record-Low Number Of Tent Encampments, Large Vehicles On San Francisco Streets - sf.gov

📚 Academic Research

• 🏥 Correctional Facility Opioid Harm Reduction: A Medication Safety and Opioid Risk Screening Program Pilot - Journal of Drug Issues - 2026-06-11 - doi.org
• 💉 Patient Insights to Improve Naloxone Access and Decision Support - The Permanente Journal - 2026-06-11 - doi.org
• 💊 Predictors and Processes of Early Buprenorphine Discontinuation: Study Protocol - Substance Use &amp Addiction Journal - 2026-06-10 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

• No hits in Law and Policy today.

💸 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 constituent letter supporting CCBHC legislation
• ✊ Housing Not Handcuffs Campaign - Join the Housing Not Handcuffs campaign to oppose anti-homeless policies

Update Notes

June 12, 2026 (#28991f3) — Adding SAMHSA, HUD, HRSA newrooms to daily scan. Patching location labeling in City Updates. Patching titling in Academic Research. I love feedback and requests – [email protected]

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