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📰 News Media

• 💊 [Mora, MN] Threatened Medicaid funding for addiction treatment throws moms, kids and a town into limbo - minnpost.com
• 💰 [National] HHS Announces $700M in Funds for Mental Health, SUD, Homelessness Initiatives - bhbusiness.com
• ☠️ [National] Super-potent synthetic opioids called nitazenes are spreading across the U.S. - statnews.com
• 🧩 [National] Recovery Alliance Initiative: Structural Flow Model - recoveryreview.blog
• 💊 [International] Europe’s Drug Market Is Adapting Faster Than Drug Policy: Five Lessons from the European Drug Report 2026 - drogriporter.hu

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 please don’t if you’re prone to addiction , i am too and got in an accident, was given opioids , and then got into all sorts of drugs , one time i did too much and had to go to the hospital and almost sent to rehab... - @mimilovescals on X

Innovation

• 🤖 💊 Innovative Solutions Consulting & Counseling Group has launched South Carolina's first data-driven overdose prevention program. The vending machines offer secure access to naloxone. (link) - @AutoRetailKiosk on X
• 🤝 The Bronx Opioid Collective is revolutionizing harm reduction by uniting over 20 organizations to combat rising overdose rates and adapt to new drug challenges like xylazine. Get the details! #Bronx #NY... - @citizenptnewsny on Bluesky

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Policy failures meeting cheap poison. Oxycontin overprescribing(90's) hooked ppl, heroin filled gaps, fentanyl flooded markets(13), meth resurged strongly. Then policy shifts toward leniency-Prop 47, needle... - @bobboge153845 on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 🎮 Efficacy of a Gamified Digital Platform for Substance Use Education and Overdose Prevention Among College Students: a Pilot and Feasibility Study - 2026-06-17 - doi.org
• 💊 Policy and Payment Factors Influencing Adoption of Low-Barrier Buprenorphine Treatment - JAMA Network Open - 2026-06-16 - doi.org
• 🏥 Short-Acting Opioid Dose and Patient-Directed Discharge in Hospitalized Patients With Opioid Use Disorder - JAMA Network Open - 2026-06-16 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

State Laws

• 📜 [Vermont] An act relating to the regulation of tobacco products and tobacco substitutes - openstates.org

City Ordinances

• 🏙️ [Denver, CO] Resolution 26-0833: ...to address barriers to behavioral health and healthcare including substance use treatment services that people who use drugs... - denver.legistar.com
• 🏙️ [Denver, CO] Resolution 26-0832: ...access services including supplies, education, wound care, sharps disposal, overdose prevention, naloxone distribution, and referrals to social support... - denver.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

• ✊ National Homelessness Law Center - Join the Housing Not Handcuffs campaign to oppose anti-homeless laws
• 🗓️ Mobilize Recovery - RSVP for Mobilize Recovery’s virtual workshop on tough conversations

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Update Notes

June 16, 2026 (#68f38e5) — Implementing feedback from the survey. Adding an option for community to submit links to the briefing. Patching issue with Academic titles. I love feedback and requests – [email protected]

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