Harm Reduction Briefing — Mar 27, 2026
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📰 News Media
- 💉 [Connecticut] 'Gas station heroin' banned in another state amid nationwide crackdowns - foxnews.com
- 🧠 [National] Primary Care “Opioid Risk Scores” Poorly Predict Individual OD Risk - filtermag.org
🗣️ Social Pulse
Innovation
- 🚻 🧵#HarmReduction means meeting people where they're at — including w/ 24/7 vending machines that offer free life-saving supplies including #Naloxone. NHRC's Director of Capacity Building & Community Mobilization, Mike Selick, spoke w/ @WYPublicRadio... (link) - x.com
- 🧪 ✅ Use Test Strips to check for potentially deadly adulterants, such as fent and xylazine. ✅ Use Reagents to verify your substance and check for additional adulterants strips can’t pick up. ✅ Use the Transparency Harm Reduction App to verify your results by comparing them to trusted, lab-verified reaction videos. - x.com
Harm Reduction Discourse
- 🟢 and dignity, helping them connect to things to keep themselves safe and spaces where they can actually have life-affirming experiences, helps people work towards behavior change and eventually make sustainable change.” #HarmReductionSavesLives #Narcan #Naloxone #NarcanSavesLives - x.com
- 🚫 Legalising and normalising drug use will lead to Increase drug use and addiction Mental health issues Increase in crime rates to feed addiction Workplace drug usage Issues regarding regulation for supply and sale You really don't understand drug addicts or their suppliers. - x.com
🏙 City Updates
- No recent City Updates found.
📚 Academic Research
- 🧪 Illicit drug supply, naloxone availability, and overdose mortality in the fentanyl era: A systematic review - Health Affairs Scholar - 2026-03-27 - doi.org
- 🧪 Public Knowledge and Perceptions of Fentanyl Test Strips: A National Cross-Sectional Survey Informed by the Health Belief Model - Healthcare - 2026-03-24 - doi.org
- 🧪 Access to health and harm reduction services during drug decriminalization in British Columbia, Canada: a mixed-method study - BMC Public Health - 2026-03-26 - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
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
Current
- 💸 Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA FY25 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use, Site-Based Program - Deadline: May 4, 2026
- 💸 Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention - OJJDP FY25 Opioid Affected Youth Initiative - Deadline: May 4, 2026
Future
Update Notes
March 26, 2026 (#fcf2ca6) — Temporarily taking Appellate court decisions out because more noise than signal right now. Fixed Law and Policy section so it doesnt repeat hits from previous days. I love feedback and requests – contact@christianarthur.tech
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