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📰 News Media

• ⚖️ [National] The Decriminalisation Playbook: New UNAIDS Report Lays Out Pathway for HIV Response - talkingdrugs.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🧪 Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications Modified molecule shows diminished respiratory depression—the leading cause of opioid overdose deaths—while retaining full pain-blocking capability. (link) - 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

• 🟢 Supervised consumption services save people's lives - you cannot argue with 22,000 overdoses reversed in Ontario at the sites from March 2020- may 2024. Over 500,000 referrals and connections to other services. The loss of those sites has been murderous and now this. - x.com
• 🚫 The evidence does not show reduced overdoses, reduced consumption etc. It does show higher consumption, diversion and sale to people who get addicted, a failure to deal with treatment, and more misery and social breakdown in the neighbourhoods where these sites are located. - x.com

🏙 City Updates

• 📧 - [Minneapolis, Minnesota] - March 16, 2026 - March Edition of Public Health Matters - newsletter - links-2.govdelivery.com

📚 Academic Research

• 🏥 Implementing Housing First in Brazil: A National Survey of Existing Programs - Psychiatric Services - 2026-03-12 - doi.org
• 💊 Treating Opioid Use Disorder With Methadone in Pharmacies - JAMA Network Open - 2026-03-16 - doi.org
• 🧭 Framing drug policy reform: Third-sector advocacy and the 2024 New South Wales Drug Summit - International Journal of Drug Policy - 2026-03-11 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

• No hits in Law and Policy today.

💸 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

Update Notes

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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