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📰 News Media

• 🚔 [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania] Jails are the frontline in fielding dangerous new type of drug withdrawal - statnews.com
• 🏥 [Connecticut] CT DOC report sheds light on overdose death and raises questions - ctmirror.org
• 🌿 [Long Island, New York] Long Island county mulls bans on ‘gas station heroin’ kratom — but there’s an exemption - nypost.com
• ⚠️ [National] DEA Plans Emergency Ban for O-DSMT, Active Compound in Tramadol - filtermag.org
• 💊 [New Mexico] DEA asks watchdog to investigate claims that agents permitted fentanyl to hit the streets - ajc.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 Thanks mate! It all started with codeine when I was a teenager. A year later it was morphine and OxyContin. I was on those pills for a couple years. In my 20s I started heroin.. I smoked it for around 6 years and... - @kaiba755 on X

Innovation

• 🤖 Promising work on ML-powered nanoelectronic opioid screening. This approach could enable faster, portable detection of dangerous drugs like fentanyl. Earlier detection can support faster decisions in the field — and... - @DoustyMehdy on X
• 📟 FDA clears Masimo wearable monitoring technology to detect opioid-related breathing risk in hospital workflows. Continuous, AI-assisted monitoring may help identify early respiratory compromise and support safer... - @corerems on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 This sounds like the worst solution considering it shrinks the housing supply and Seattle/WA already have a lack of commitment to public safety. Housing first solutions need to go. Anything without mandatory... - @yungmulababylol on X

🏙 City Updates

• 📧 - [San Diego, CA] - June 25, 2026 - County Moves Forward on Funding for Supportive Housing in Chula Vista - newsletter - countynewscenter.com

📚 Academic Research

• 💉 “You’ve involved us knowing that we don’t think about the law like you”: a qualitative study on Supersavers’ perspective of overdose engagement in Skåne county, South Sweden - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-06-23 - doi.org
• 🧑 Results from a peer recovery coach-delivered future orientation intervention for returning citizens in substance use treatment: feasibility and preliminary outcomes - Health & Justice - 2026-06-25 - doi.org
• 💊 “The alternative is they’re not getting care at all”: a qualitative interview study of opioid use disorder treatment providers’ perspectives on quality and appropriateness of telehealth for buprenorphine access - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-06-23 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

State Laws

• 📜 [West Virginia] Relating to registration and enforcement of kratom products - openstates.org
• 📜 [West Virginia] Repealing Addiction Treatment Pilot Program - openstates.org

💸 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 Harm Reduction Coalition - Contact Congress to reject HIV funding cuts in federal budget
• 📞 National Alliance to End Homelessness - Use the call and email script to urge Congress on homelessness funding

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June 25, 2026 (#83043c8) — Adding LinkedIn accounts to morning scan. I love feedback and requests – [email protected]

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