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📰 News Media

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🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 💬 Drug checking is an increasingly important part of the picture. Many SSPs provide fentanyl or xylazine test strips, or connect people to warnings about contaminants in the supply. That information reduces accidental poisonings and helps communities understand emerging threats. In a market where potency and adulterants change constantly, basic information becomes a safety intervention. Cutting SSPs also cuts this early-warning capability. - x.com
• 🧊 Virginia - ‘Save as many lives as possible’: Recovery advocate praises Richmond’s expansion of harm reduction vending machine program www.wric.com/news/local-n... - bsky.app

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🟢 Naloxone can reverse an opioid overdose quickly and safely, making it essential to saving lives. What's more, anyone can use it to help someone—and it's available by Rx and over the counter. States can and should make naloxone easier to get. (link) - x.com
• 🚫 Opioid deaths increased after the so-called "safe injection/safe consumption sites" opened. Just like opioid deaths increased when "safe supply" was introduced. They are not a compassionate way to help people. - x.com

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 💊 Assessment of a County-Wide, Pan-First Responder Take-Home Naloxone Program in Denver, Colorado - Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open - 2026-03-13 - doi.org
• 🧠 ‘I’m doing it willingly’: understanding moral agency, empathy, and stigma in the context of sexualised drug use - Culture Health & Sexuality - 2026-03-14 - doi.org
• 💊 Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy of Empowered Relief in Patients With Chronic Pain Taking Methadone or Buprenorphine: Single-Arm National Pilot Study - JMIR Formative Research - 2026-03-11 - 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

Future

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

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March 14, 2026 (#ad29385) — Tighten filters for social, city update, and funding sections. Improve logging for law and policy. I love feedback and requests – contact@christianarthur.tech

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