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📰 News Media

• 📉 [Sacramento, CA] Sacramento trauma center loses funding as Prop. 36 shifts dollars - sacbee.com
• 🌿 [Santee, CA] State files suit to halt illegal Southern CA kratom sales - sacbee.com
• 🚬 [National] Fruit-flavored e-cigarettes for adults OK'd by FDA in major shift under Trump - cbsnews.com
• ⚖️ [Louisiana] Louisiana "Homelessness Court" Would Offer Treatment, Forced Labor - filtermag.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 I think the solution isn’t isolating them as a group since they’ve created a negative feedback cycle between themselves. It’s taking each individual and surrounding them with normal people, give them a “semi-normal”... - @0xSero on X

Innovation

• 🧪 with other synthetic opioids like nitazenes & cychlorphine in the mix, a fentanyl test strip could directly kill someone, as they are not detected by it is the easiest launch point, but theres more here overall:... - @TSBurkhardt on X
• 🛰️ NEW 2026 NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY @SaraCarterDC says the Office of National Drug Control Policy is focusing on “emerging threats,” using tools like wastewater monitoring to track new drugs and stay ahead of... - @RealAmVoice on X

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🟢 The Community Naloxone Resource Map is designed to help residents access the life-saving drug in their local communities. It lists 30 sites in 22 of the state’s 23 counties. (link) - @WyoFile on X
• 🚫 That's fine. I disagree. Feeding addicts 'free' drugs at sites that are child and women trafficking sites, crime ridden, people selling/trading RX drugs for the "real things", prostitutions, child abuse I don't... - @DyonDyon12 on X

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📚 Academic Research

• 🏥 Mechanism Design for Harm Reduction in Multi‑Principal Carceral MOUD and Recovery Housing - 2026-05-05 - doi.org
• 💉 Harm reduction utilization in an opioid crisis epicentre during the era of fentanyl inhalation: A cross-sectional study - 2026-05-05 - doi.org
• 🩺 Machine Learning Prediction and Reducing Overdoses With Electronic Health Record Nudges (mPROVEN) in the Primary Care Setting: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial - JMIR Research Protocols - 2026-05-04 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

State Laws

• 📜 [Oklahoma] Fentanyl overdose and overdose reporting; first responders; report; immunity; prohibited acts; rebuttable prima facie evidence that fentanyl was the proximate cause of death; effective date. - openstates.org

💸 Funding (Click for more)

Current

• 💸 Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA FY25 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use, Site-Based Program - Deadline: May 8, 2026
• 💸 Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA FY25 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (COSSUP) Investigations Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) - Deadline: May 13, 2026

Future

• 💉 AIDS United - Harm Reduction Futures Fund - Harm Reduction Futures Fund - AIDS United - Expected: TBA
• 🏥 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Expected: TBA

📣 Activism

• ✉️ National Alliance to End Homelessness - Send a letter to Congress supporting FY2027 HUD housing programs
• 📝 Students for Sensible Drug Policy - Apply to become an SSDP Ambassador and join orientation

Update Notes

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