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📰 News Media

• 🧭 [Boston, Massachusetts] After lawmakers pitched idea, Mass. officials launch portal for people to report ICE misconduct - The Boston Globe - bostonglobe.com
• 🤝 [Dallas, TX] Prism Health announces funding for new program targeting women - dallasvoice.com
• 🏠 [National] Fair Future Act Takes Aim at Housing Discrimination Over Drug Convictions - filtermag.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🧪 CanTEST Health & Drug Checking Service, also known as pill testing, is a free and confidential health and harm reduction service operating on Ngunnawal & Ngambri lands (Canberra ACT). cantest.com.au - bsky.app
• 📊 ToxIC has refreshed the RENDOR project dashboard! RENDOR is a multi-center study looking at #naloxone use, risks, benefits, and effectiveness for reversing opioid overdoses in pre-hospital settings. Check out the new and improved stats visualization: (link) - x.com

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🟢 Harm reduction is not just about overdose deaths, It’s engaging people in treatment, Reducing infections, Reducing hospitalization, Preventing STD The single biggest factor that reduced overdose deaths was Narcan and MOUDs. If you look at all of that, as a complete picture, it’s a tremendous success. - x.com
• 🚫 When you pull back the curtain on the harm reduction system, it’s hard to trust its current methodology. It’s only goal is to reduce the negative consequences of drug use without requiring abstinence. That system on its own can only be defined as pathological! - x.com

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 💊 Using drug checking data to model the relationship between the prevalence of fentanyl and xylazine to drug overdose deaths in New York City - International Journal of Drug Policy - 2026-03-12 - doi.org
• ⚖️ Effectiveness Of Decriminalization Vs. Strict Prohibition Policies On Narcotic Drug Abuse - Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) - 2026-03-12 - doi.org
• 🧪 Fentanyl use among people who inject drugs in two large Pacific Northwest metropolitan areas - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-03-12 - 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 - Open Society 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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