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📰 News Media

• 🧃 [National] https://nytimes.com/2026/03/21/world/deadly-drugs-paper.html - nytimes.com
• 🚭 [National] Teen Tobacco Use Down in New Survey. Why Did FDA Hide It? - dcjournal.com
• 📝 [National] https://healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2025.01351 - healthaffairs.org
• 🚬 [National] Vaping Is Safer Than Smoking: Now It's Official in France - Filter - filtermag.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 💬 Reducing opioid withdrawal by 60% in 1 hour. The NET Device is making recovery more accessible. (link) (link) - x.com
• 📉 These sites reduce OD deaths and reduce first responder burden. Overdose mortality incidence and supervised consumption services in Toronto, Canada: an ecological study and spatial analysis - ScienceDirect (link) - x.com

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🟢 🚨URGENT: Evidence shows supervised consumption sites prevent deaths, reduce ER visits, and connect people with care. Closing them is dangerous. Tell Premier @fordnation to reverse this decision: (link) #HarmReduction - x.com
• 🚫 Drugs are inherently dangerous, which is why they are illegal. Taxpayers shouldn’t be funding and facilitating drug consumption under the delusion it will result in less danger. Easier drugs = more danger Chraper drugs = more danger BC pushed the first very dangerous “safe supply” program, it was a totla disaster and they had to shut it down. - free drugs ended up in school yard, developed a whole new set of problems; - money from the sale of free drugs was used to buy fentanyl, feeding criminal networks; - homeless doubled; - overdoses tripled; - hospital, skytrain stations, and all East Vancouver have become dangerous, with violent crimes growing by double digits. Enforce laws, lock up criminals, expel temporary status drug addicts, don’t tolerate drugs anywhere, bring back and promote the stigma! - x.com

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 📊 Association Between Access to Harm Reduction Services and Socioeconomic Improvement Among People Who Use Drugs in Nigeria - 2026-03-23 - doi.org
• 💉 The reach, effectiveness, implementation, and maintenance of a New York City harm reduction program enrolling priority populations who use meth, 2017–2022 - Drug and Alcohol Dependence - 2026-03-18 - doi.org
• 🏥 Understanding the Impact of Structural Racism and Violence Across the Lifespan on Overdose Vulnerability Among Black San Franciscans Experiencing Homelessness - Journal of Psychoactive Drugs - 2026-03-17 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

Federal Agencies

• ⚖️ [United States] [Final Rule] Schedules of Controlled Substances: Placement of 3-Methoxyphencyclidine (1-(1-(3-Methoxyphenyl)cyclohexyl)piperidine) in Schedule I - federalregister.gov
• ⚖️ [United States] [Final Rule] Ordering Schedule I and II Controlled Substances Using DEA Form 222; Technical Amendments - federalregister.gov

💸 Funding

Future

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

Update Notes

March 23, 2026 (#b2ed410) — Adding more news sources introduced bugs yesterday. Fixed issues and added more sources. Hope this improves consistency in news section I love feedback and requests – contact@christianarthur.tech

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