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📰 News Media

• 🩺 [Chicago, IL] Illinois Overdose Prevention Center Bill Is Moving Forward Again - filtermag.org
• 🧴 [Nassau County, New York] Nassau County restricts ‘whip-its,’ bans sale of kratom in back-to-back crackdowns on teen drug trends - nypost.com
• 🚔 [Portland, Oregon] Portland Jail-Deflection Participants Who “Fail” Will Soon Face Prosecution - filtermag.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🏙️ The shift toward increasing public-space deaths in #yeg signals an urgent need for expanded supervised consumption infrastructure, affordable & permanent supportive housing, funded peer-led outreach in areas with demonstrated need (many!), harm reduction-aligned drop-in sites, and housing. - bsky.app
• 🤖 about how important these resources are, particularly in a 1st step to receiving more care & support. The machines, “allow people who might not feel comfortable talking about their drug use to even a harm reduction worker yet to get access to life-saving supplies, and that’s.. - x.com
• 🧪 We NEED to be focused are REDUCING harm, long enough so we can someday see recovery (for those who want to/eventually will want to). This includes, but not limited to: Providing clean safe equipment to IV/snort/smoke drvgs, fent and xyl tests, drvg checking/reaggent tests.. (7/9) - x.com

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🟢 Evidence from other regions shows that harm reduction approaches, including drug checking services, can play a crucial role in preventing overdoses and reducing the risk of serious harm. - x.com
• 🚫 From what I can tell, most of the focus and budget now is on the drug sources which is more of a foreign problem than a domestic as its funding our geopolitical enemies and cartels. There’s far more sympathy for the end user than there ever has been mostly because regular people our getting sucked into fent ODs. The core problem (addiction) will forever be cultural. But I think it has gone down over time along with child abuse and general poverty (as it’s all inter connected). I think most (not all) of the homeless addicts we have remaining are mentally ill and medicating themselves with street drugs. Unfortunately, the only solution to this is forced institutionalization. It goes against the core freedom belief of the country, but it’s literally for their own good. - x.com

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 🧪 Public drug use, policing, and the limits of decriminalization in British Columbia: A mixed methods study - International Journal of Drug Policy - 2026-03-26 - doi.org
• 🤖 Meeting Veterans Where They Are: Harm Reduction Supply Distribution via Vending Machines - Substance Use & Addiction Journal - 2026-03-28 - doi.org
• 🧪 The rising wave of cathinone use in people attending harm reduction facilities: a French repeated cross-sectional study (2019–2023) - Addiction Science & Clinical Practice - 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

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

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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