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📰 News Media

• 💧 [Las Vegas, Nevada] Nevada pitches emergency plan to stabilize failing Colorado River - reviewjournal.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🧭 I campaigned on doing everything possible to combat the fentanyl crisis, and we are tackling the crisis from every angle. From urging the passage of legislation that increased penalties for fentanyl distribution, acquiring the 1st fentanyl-detecting K9s, to delivering naxolone distribution boxes to 40 locations around the state, our goal is to save lives. You can help by finding a distribution box and keeping a naloxone kit with you. You never know when you might be in a position to save someone's life. - x.com
• 💬 107,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year. Most didn't know fentanyl was in what they took. DoseAware brings AI-powered education, treatment plans, and anonymous support to the people who need it most. (link) - x.com

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🟢 Do you provide care to people who use drugs? Check out Harm Reduction Fundamentals: A Toolkit for Service Providers Access the free toolkit online: (link) --- - x.com
• 🚫 Safe supply sites limit the rampant drug use to the neighbourhoods where they’re located. Which obviously sucks for those places. Until harms to surrounding residents are addressed, there will never ever be buy in. I don’t get how this isn’t obvious. - x.com

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 🔬 Why Fear Fails: Limitations of Alarmist Tactics and Humanized Approaches in the  Prevention and Treatment of Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid Abuse - Revista ft - 2026-03-08 - doi.org
• 🧭 Workforce Diversity and Wait Times to Enter Opioid Treatment - American Journal of Health Research - 2026-03-05 - doi.org
• 🏥 Simple Can Be Effective: A Brief Naloxone Training in Preclinical Medical Education - Cureus - 2026-03-08 - 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 program - Deadline: rolling

Future

• 🩸 AIDS United - Harm Reduction Futures Fund - Expected: TBA

Update Notes

March 10, 2026 (#e20578f) — Fixing to prevent a false positive in news section from yesterday, plus making sure news hits submitted manually include an emoji and specify news location I love feedback and requests – contact@christianarthur.tech

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