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📰 News Media

• [National] St. Louis-area medic agencies adding opioid treatment drug for in-field use - firstalert4.com
• 💊 [National] Opinion: America must not learn to live with 72,000 overdose deaths a year - statnews.com
• 📰 [National] Press Releases | Kansas City Star - kansascity.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🧪 Pull-Up & Pick-Up 3/20/26 at 10am Free harm reduction supplies provided by Behavioral Health Services’ Community Access to Recovery Services (CARS)! 👉 Fentanyl/Xylazine Testing Strips 👉 Nasal Narcan 👉 Gun Locks 📍 400 S. 5th St. 📋 Register here: (link) - x.com
• 💬 The other part of this set up are safe using centers where addicts can safely use their drug of choice without fear of arrest. Clean needles are provided as well as some food and hygiene items. It is cheaper for municipalities to do this than to pay for treatment for addicts. - x.com

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🟢 #Escambia Naloxone (Narcan) is a life-saving medication that can rapidly reverse an opioid overdose. Know where to get it and how to use it. Have a loved one needing help call #CORE 850-477-HELP. (link) - x.com
• 🚫 When you can't fix the problem, at least profit off making it slightly less terrible HARM REDUCTION /härm rɪˈdʌkʃən/ noun A policy framework that accepts reality instead of your preferred fantasy world. Rather than eliminate a problem, you minimize its damage while pretending this isn't just damage control with better branding. Example: The city's harm reduction program gives out clean needles, which definitely stops the drugs but also stops the morality plays, so everyone's upset. - x.com

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 🧪 Gatekeeping harm reduction in Canadian Federal Prisons: Perspectives on the threat risk assessment for the prison needle exchange program by prison administrative leadership. - PubMed - 2026-03-05 - doi.org
• 🧠 Impact of enhanced practices on opioid overdose deaths: A community-based modeling approach. - PubMed - 2026-03-05 - doi.org
• 💉 Applying the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) to understand college health administrator perceptions on adopting and implementing opioid overdose education and naloxone distribution (OEND) programs among universities nationally - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-03-07 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

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💸 Funding

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

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March 8, 2026 (#c3fd81d) — Touching up some emoji formatting and fixing bugs in manual submission I love feedback and requests – contact@christianarthur.tech

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