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📰 News Media

• 💉 [National] April Newsletter - Opioid Data Lab - opioiddata.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 As an addictions counselor I saw the benefits of Suboxone in helping people overcome opioid addiction. But recovery is a lifestyle change, so a medication alone will not cure addiction. The people who are most... - @affirm-sanity on Bluesky

Innovation

• 🤖 The Trump administration is launching a multi-faceted strategy to combat drug use in the U.S. 🚨 From AI-driven cargo screenings to monitoring through wastewater, these cutting-edge methods aim for real-time data on... - @DailyAITechNews on X
• 🧪 A few years ago, an MIT team designed a waste water collection/analysis system to locate drugs/metabolites to within 1-2 blocks of disposal. Their working model: hone in on specific blocks with high drug use, to... - @madras_bertha on X

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🟢 Naloxone Click and Deliver Naloxone is a lifesaving medication that can temporarily reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. We now offer a click and deliver service to any address in Wales. Order here - (link) (SH) - @dan_247 on X
• 🚫 Hey, this is good. LA must do this too. We can’t continue incentivizing and supporting open air drug markets and use of synthetic narcotics and call it harm reduction. Reducing harm also requires deterrence,... - @Cassy_Horton on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 🧠 “The community’s memory is timeless”: exploring cultural and community context to inform the public health response to the overdose crisis in black communities - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-04-29 - doi.org
• 💉 Modelling the impact of cuts in US PEPFAR funding for opioid agonist therapy and needle and syringe programmes on drug-related deaths and HIV and hepatitis C transmission among people who inject drugs - International Journal of Drug Policy - 2026-04-27 - doi.org
• 🧠 Care access and provision for persons surviving opioid overdose and toxic brain injury, with recommendations to address the unfolding polycrisis. - PubMed - 2026-04-28 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

State Laws

• 📜 [Montana] Provide for the licensure of residential treatment centers - openstates.org

💸 Funding (Click for more)

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

• 🧭 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Active and upcoming funding opportunities (RWJF) - Expected: TBA
• 💉 AIDS United - Harm Reduction Futures Fund - Expected: TBA

📣 Activism

• 📝 Treatment Advocacy Center - Submit public comments on HUD work requirements and time limits rule
• 🗳️ National Alliance to End Homelessness - Register for budget advocacy webinar on federal homelessness funding

Update Notes

May 3, 2026 (#f83c688) — Increasing GPT 5.5 reasoning level for the Social Discourse classifier, to reduce missclassification of Pro vs Anti posts. I love feedback and requests – contact@christianarthur.tech

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