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📰 News Media

• ⚖️ [Indiana] Talks and Threats: Inside the Push to Redo Purdue’s Opioid Deal - news.bgov.com
• ⚖️ [National] The Supreme Court Has Agreed to Protect Drug Users - thenation.com
• 📰 [Boston, MA] Kheyberk Fharah is a fixture in the addiction recovery ... - bostonglobe.com
• 📰 [New Haven, CT] Successful re-entry from prison requires supporting the whole person - ctmirror.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 No, you’re misunderstanding me. I was addicted to heroin, meth, and later fentanyl from about age 16/17 until six months ago. I was homeless for about five years in San Francisco, with periods in jail and... - @AmberRichmondSF on X

Innovation

• 🧰 On the nose: 🙏🏻 "Harm reduction is not an ideology. It is a clean syringe, naloxone in a backpack, fentanyl test strips in a pocket. A place where someone can be kept breathing instead of being found dead. "Anyone... - @Amos52100 on X
• 🧪 (link) cost effective harm reduction approach, referred to as OPC (overdose prevention center), SFC (safe consumption facilities), SCS, DCR, safe injection sites shown to reduce infection, overdose, public... - @egekduman on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Fentanyl and the new P2P meth make the model of in city “Housing First” for the addicted and mentally ill impossible. It’s time to create long term treatment away from city neighborhoods and bring back arrest as the... - @savagecitizens on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 🏪 Harm reduction vending machines: An opportunity to bridge the resource access gap in non-urban communities - Health & Place - 2026-06-28 - doi.org
• 🏥 Evaluating the effectiveness of substance use disorder treatment centers: a systematic review of international standards and outcomes - Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention and Policy - 2026-06-27 - doi.org
• 🧠 A latent profile analysis of opioid-related knowledge, social relationships, and campus connectedness among college students - Frontiers in Public Health - 2026-06-23 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

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💸 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
• 💸 Housing Not Handcuffs Campaign - Donate to support Housing Not Handcuffs campaign work

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Update Notes

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

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