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📰 News Media

• 🏥 [Sacramento, CA] WellSpace advances 200-bed drug and alcohol treatment center on Stockton Boulevard, targets 2028 opening - bizjournals.com
• 💊 [Oklahoma] Oklahoma Senate Advances Research-Focused Ibogaine Bill - filtermag.org
• 🧪 [Knoxville, TN] A Medical Examiner Chases Down an Elusive Killer - nytimes.com
• 🚨 [National] Public Health Campaign to Raise Awareness of Drug Supply Contamination - talkingdrugs.org
• 🧪 [National] What to Know About Orphines, a New Class of Deadly Opioids - nytimes.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 @commanderkitten9954 My bf told me he was spending $80 a week on gas station kratom pills & felt like he was addicted. He's a former addict. So he went to a doctor, got meds to regulate his blood pressure & help him... - @joyjoyjoyjoy597 on Bluesky

Innovation

• 🏥 "The preponderance of the evidence suggests these sites ... provide sterile equipment, overdose reversal, and linkage to medical care for addiction, in the virtual absence of significant direct risks like increases... - @melrod42 on X
• 🤖 This strategy is serious. AI screening cargo at ports for fentanyl. National wastewater testing to detect drug use in real time. 8 cartels designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Faith based treatment as a... - @samuelffisher on X

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🟢 Safe consumption sites supervised by nurses ensure safe disposal of needles, prevent sharing needles and ODs—they’re a gateway to treatment. The troubled people you call parasites are humans. Offloading addicts to... - @KathleenAldrid9 on X
• 🚫 Systemic issues matter. But just addressing root causes while enabling open drug use has been tried and failed in places like Toronto, San Francisco, and Portland. Overdoses in Toronto jumped nearly 50% in early... - @Mr_Joe_Gamer on X

🏙 City Updates

• 📧 - [Kansas City, Missouri] - May 4, 2026 - Kansas City Adopts New Community Health Plan - newsletter - mailchi.mp

📚 Academic Research

• 🏠 Would we, could we? Measuring attitudinal and capacity barriers to supporting recovery housing residents on medication for opioid use disorder. - PubMed - 2026-04-30 - doi.org
• 💉 Ready, willing, and able: understanding opioid overdose preparedness among college students in the southwestern United States - Frontiers in Public Health - 2026-05-05 - doi.org
• 💊 Increasing naloxone distribution to opioid overdose patients in the emergency department following best practice advisory enhancement - The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - 2026-05-01 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

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💸 Funding (Click for more)

Current

• 💸 Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA FY25 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (COSSUP) Investigations Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) - Deadline: May 8, 2026
• 🩺 Hearst Foundations - Health - Hearst Foundations (Health) — Year-round rolling grant applications (no deadlines) - Minimum grant size is $100,000. - Deadline: Year-round, rolling application; there are no deadlines.

Future

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

📣 Activism

• 🗣️ National Alliance to End Homelessness - Register for budget advocacy webinar on federal homelessness funding
• 📝 Students for Sensible Drug Policy - Apply to become an SSDP Ambassador and join orientation

Update Notes

May 5, 2026 (#b591c2a) — Add Drugreporter RSS feed to news scan I love feedback and requests – contact@christianarthur.tech

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