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📰 News Media

• 💉 [National] The Cost of Indifference: America’s Overdose Crisis in Black Communities - sir.advancedleadership.harvard.edu
• 🍄 [National] Magic mushrooms might be the new anti depressants - macleans.ca
• 🏥 [Tucson, AZ] New Arizona budget fails to meet judge's order on prison healthcare - tucson.com
• 🍃 [Pennsylvania] Pa. Senate Democrats reject bill to create independent board for marijuana, hemp regulation - phillyvoice.com
• 🏥 [National] Brazil's Notorious Drug Rehabs Poised to Treat Children as Young ... - filtermag.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 Issuing a request for suggestions on where HHS should direct funding for responses to substance use disorder and mental illness (a stigmatizing term), but stating they only want, "examples of 'programs or... - @meghannperryrecoverystorytelling on LinkedIn

Innovation

• 🤖 the operation of the regional automated dispensers (harm reduction vending machines), sterile syringe availability, and naloxone distribution programs across regional outpatient networks. - @Acruzn808 on X
• 🏪 Visit one of our Public Health Vending Machines for access to FREE harm reduction supplies, including Narcan and test strips. #harmreduction #publichealth - @racinecountyhealth on Bluesky

Opposition Views

• 🚫 This is a really Sick combination of collective Co-Dependency for decriminalizing drug use while simultaneously providing unrealized housing ! We’ve paid for a home for each unhoused, ten times over by now ! The... - @GeorgeD46180690 on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 💊 The association between naloxone distribution, buprenorphine treatment and retention and incident high‐risk opioid prescribing with opioid overdose death in Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York and Ohio, United States: An exploratory community‐level cohort study of data from the HEALing Communities Study - Addiction - 2026-06-12 - doi.org
• 💊 A Preclinical Review on Novel μ Opioid Receptor Modulators as Potential Candidates for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment - Current Neuropharmacology - 2026-06-08 - doi.org
• 💊 Participant perspectives on a safe supply program in Vancouver, Canada: impacts, satisfaction and improvement priorities - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-06-07 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

Federal Agencies

• ⚖️ [United States] [Comment Request] HHS Request for Comment on Chronic Disease of Addiction - federalregister.gov
• ⚖️ [United States] [Final Rule] Reducing Bureaucracy and Burden for Community Services Programs - federalregister.gov

💸 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

• ✊ Housing Not Handcuffs Campaign - Join the Housing Not Handcuffs campaign to oppose anti-homeless policies
• 🗓️ Mobilize Recovery - Register for Operation Understanding workshop on tough conversations

Update Notes

June 13, 2026 (#6ad3fa0) — Fix Buttondown email payload schema I love feedback and requests – [email protected]

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