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📰 News Media

• 🫂 [Los Angeles, California] Mortality Rate for LA’s Unhoused Residents Drops for the First Time - filtermag.org
• 🧠 [National] Bill Would Require the VA to Study and Provide Psychedelic Treatments - filtermag.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🧪 Access to safety should be simple. MATTERS provides free fentanyl and xylazine test strips by mail across New York State, delivered directly to you at no cost. Order yours today: (link) - x.com
• 🧭 Protecting yourself also helps protect your community. Fentanyl and xylazine are showing up in many different substances, making drug checking more important than ever. Fentanyl test strips are available in our NaloxBoxes, along with Narcan at (link) #NCDHD - x.com
• 🔬 Today I announced over $1 million for @UNLV’s Instrumentation for Pathogen Detection in Water project. This program will implement systems to detect illicit substances like fentanyl, track infectious diseases, deploy solar-powered technology to produce clean drinking water, and provide evidence-based strategies for enhancing health and water security throughout the state. - x.com

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🟢 For the first time ever, LA County recorded a DROP in unhoused deaths, 300 fewer in 2024, with overdose deaths down 21% thanks to naloxone. But 6 people still die on our streets every day, and unhoused residents are 46x more likely to die of overdose. (link) - x.com
• 🚫 This seriously risks overreach: potentially forcing involuntary treatment or institutionalization, eroding civil liberties, and treating symptoms rather than root causes like housing shortages or mental health access. - x.com

🏙 City Updates

• 📧 - [Los Angeles, California] - March 12, 2026 - LA County Close-Up - newsletter - lacounty.gov

📚 Academic Research

• 🔎 Trauma-informed intervention to reduce substance use and to support community transition [TRUST]: Study protocol for a type 1 effectiveness-implementation hybrid trial to reduce overdose risk among justice-involved women - 2026-03-12 - doi.org
• 🧭 News Media Coverage of Overdose Prevention Centers: A Content Analysis - 2026-03-12 - doi.org
• 🧬 Perceived HIV knowledge in the context of novel psychoactive substance use: evidence from a multi-city survey in Kazakhstan - Frontiers in Public Health - 2026-03-10 - 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 - 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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