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📰 News Media

• 🚑 [National] Drop in opioid overdose deaths nears 50% since 2023 - bostonherald.com
• 🚫 [National] Another state bans 'gas station heroin' as officials warn of deadly risks - foxnews.com
• 🍃 [National] Kratom poisoning calls at record high, study finds - cnn.com
• 🇬 [National] Did the Gorton & Denton Election Just Shift the UK Drug Policy Debate? - talkingdrugs.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 💬 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
• 📬 GREAT NEWS! DASSA has expanded the Take-Home Naloxone Program - you can now access your free naloxone through the post, making it even easier to access harm reduction tools no matter where you’re located! For more info, head to tinyurl.com/THNSAHEALTH - bsky.app

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🟢 I mean you're obviously on about drugs. Proper drug harm reduction saves lives. For me that is stocking Naloxone at home work and in my business ventures. I don't use opioids. Never will. But I have saved 14 or 15 lives by being there with the lifesaving care. How is that moving - x.com
• 🟢 NEW POST at Illness and Cure (link) Inside, outside of, and in areas without supervised consumption sites, by direct reports, high-risk opioid use and overdose are surging, ruling out drug supply, all other factors to explain death reductions – except naloxone - x.com

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 🧠 Differences in anxiety, depression, and heart rate variability between patients with methamphetamine use disorder and heroin use disorder patients on methadone maintenance treatment - BMC Psychiatry - 2026-03-24 - doi.org
• 🩺 Managing acute stimulant intoxication in ambulatory settings: a protocol-driven case report - The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse - 2026-03-25 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

• No hits in Law and Policy today.

💸 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 28, 2026 (#e526f7e) — Apologies to everyone, had intended to cut the misperforming Appelate courts section, which was not only repeating old hits but also the AI summary was misleading. Should be fixed for now. Cutting Appelate courts and sticking to Supreme Court I love feedback and requests – contact@christianarthur.tech

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