Harm Reduction Briefing — Mar 26, 2026
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📰 News Media
🗣️ Social Pulse
Innovation
- 🧪 chris runs a pa lab that tests illegal drugs. small sample size: most people wont send in a bag. overall fentanyl percentages have been going down as tranq (xylazine / meditomine) cuts go up arguably harm reduction from the supply side, probably helps reduce overdose deaths - x.com
- 🤝 By organizing coalitions of providers and community members, leveraging existing community resources, and inviting perspective of people with lived/living experience, we introduced take-home naloxone, harm reduction equipment, oral and injectable opioid agonist treatment, and informal policies 2/ - bsky.app
Harm Reduction Discourse
- 🟢 This is exactly why we stopped treating naloxone alone as the plan. In our Everett recovery house we run face verified check ins plus a 5 30 AM risk review so behavior drift gets caught before overdose risk spikes. Fast housing based follow up is the missing layer. - x.com
- 🚫 Portland’s multi-million-dollar “deflection centre” sounds progressive until the resident spells it out: Caught with fentanyl, offered the choice of jail or a quick-release lounge with no treatment, and back on the street in minutes. This is not compassion; it is institutionalised denial dressed as policy. The same script has played out in British towns with county lines, needle litter and open-air dealing while officials celebrate reduced custodial sentences. Removing consequences for hard-drug possession simply sustains the chaos and the industry that profits from managing it rather than ending it. - x.com
🏙 City Updates
- No recent City Updates found.
📚 Academic Research
- 🚲 Spike on a bike: mobile harm reduction in action - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-03-25 - doi.org
- 💊 Brief Prescribing Support and Buprenorphine Adoption in Rural Primary Care - JAMA Network Open - 2026-03-25 - doi.org
- ⚖️ The Double Bind of Evidence: Harm Reduction, Structural Change, and the Institutional Constraints of Randomized Controlled Trials in Criminal-Legal Settings - Social Service Review - 2026-03-24 - 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
Court Decisions
- 🏥 [Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit] United States v. Fabian: This appellate decision from the Second Circuit may matter to public-health and related systems because it can affect how federal courts treat enforcement involving controlled substances, which in turn may shape the operating conditions and risk for programs that support overdose prevention and substance-use intervention, including those adjacent to harm reduction, Medicaid, housing, or criminal justice. - courtlistener.com
- 👩 [Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit] United States v. Paul Curry: This Sixth Circuit ruling may affect how communities and partner agencies handle substance use interventions—such as access to overdose-prevention tools and related supports tied to Medicaid, housing, and criminal-justice pathways—by shaping what conduct law enforcement can address. - courtlistener.com
💸 Funding (Click for more)
Current
- 💸 Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA FY25 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use, Site-Based Program - Deadline: May 4, 2026
- 💸 Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA FY25 Second Chance Act Family-Based Substance Use Disorder Treatment Program - Deadline: May 4, 2026
Future
Update Notes
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