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📰 News Media

• 🧠 [Chicago, Illinois] Illinois lawmakers look to Colorado program that, for $6 a day, gets help for people who are mentally ill - chicago.suntimes.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🗺️ Lehigh County, PA just put #overdose prevention on a 24/7 schedule. Two public kiosks in Allentown and Slatington now offer free naloxone plus wound care and hygiene supplies, anonymous and no questions. (link) - x.com
• 🧪 Using spectrometry technology, Consumption + Treatment Services staff (inside ICH) can now analyze substances for hidden risks, giving people the information they need to make safer choices. Learn more about this important, lifesaving service: (link) #endoverdose - x.com
• 🤖 New research found a machine learning model using EHR data could identify patients at higher risk of developing opioid use disorder. Better risk stratification could help health systems act sooner, before harm escalates. @jmirpub (link) - x.com

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🟢 The @ECDOH offers many ways to get naloxone and other harm reduction supplies for free, no questions asked. Send a text to (716) 858-7695 or scan the QR code to access free Narcan and test strips. We will mail the items to you. It's another way #ErieCountyWorksForYou. - x.com
• 🚫 If you still think that the current policies are keeping people safe, you’re delusional. You have no idea what the lived experience of the MANY critics of the Safe Supply & Housing First models have had to suffer. And you don’t care. - x.com

🏙 City Updates

• 🎧 - [Memphis, TN] - March 6, 2026 - Talking Public Health Episode 9: Observing Black Balloon Day - shelbytnhealth.com
• [Memphis, TN] - March 4, 2026 - Shelby County Health Department Observes Black Balloon Day on March 6, 2026 - shelbytnhealth.com

📚 Academic Research

• 2026-03-05 - Seroprevalence of hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV among male injecting drug users in Afghanistan - Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal - doi.org
• 2026-03-04 - Dropout rates and factors associated with adherence to opioid agonist treatment among adults with opioid use disorder at Sekou Toure Regional Referral Hospital, Mwanza, Tanzania - Frontiers in Psychiatry - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

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💸 Funding (Click for more)

Current

• National Institutes of Health - Development of Interventions to Prevent and Treat Substance Use Disorders and Overdose (UG3/UH3 - Clinical Trial Optional) - Deadline: Aug 21, 2028
• Open Society Foundations - Leadership in Government Fellowship - Deadline: rolling

Future

• AIDS United - Harm Reduction Futures Fund - Harm Reduction Futures Fund (AIDS United) - Expected: TBA

Update Notes

March 4, 2026 (#098bd89) — Big upgrade. Added Reddit scan to Social section. Added City Council ordinance and Supreme/Appellate courts scan to Law and Policy. Added new funding section containing Federal and private opportunities, current and former. May be some bugs in the next week as changes get ironed out. I hope people like the expansions!! I love feedback and requests – contact@christianarthur.tech

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