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📰 News Media

• 📰 [National] 3 key items for New York City in Gov. Hochul's state budget agreement - bizjournals.com
• 📰 [National] For Putin, Problems (and Paranoia) Keep Mounting - newyorker.com
• 📰 [National] Spanish police seize record-setting 30 tones of cocaine - nbcnews.com
• ⚖️ [National] How public health officials are tracing people who came in contact with hantavirus victims - medicalxpress.com
• 📰 [National] Hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship raises transmission concerns - medicalxpress.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

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Innovation

• 💬 “The administration also aims to apply artificial intelligence technologies to…examine electronic health records to identify patients at high risk of overdose.” That sounds unconstitutional. Also, private equity has... - @LauraMiers on X

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🟢 May 7 is #InternationalHarmReductionDay Harm Reduction Saves Lives. Safe supply, drug checking, naloxone, harm reduction kits & supervised consumption sites are about meeting people where they are without judgement... - @PQWCHC on X
• 🚫 Same folks who give drug addicts free needles in the name of "harm reduction" want to ban vaping. - @timothy_watson on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 💊 Referral linkages to support pregnant and postpartum individuals with opioid use disorders in Florida: a social network analysis - Addiction Science & Clinical Practice - 2026-05-08 - doi.org
• 🔬 “We Do This Work Together”: Stigma Negotiation and Resistance in the Lives of Male Sex Workers Who Perform Sex Work Online in the United States - The Journal of Sex Research - 2026-05-04 - doi.org
• 📊 Mapping the evolution of fentanyl research: a scientometric analysis of clinical applications and abuse trends (1964–2025) - International Journal of Surgery - 2026-05-06 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

State Laws

• 📜 [Maine] An Act To Establish A Program To Assist Residents Of Large Recovery Residences - openstates.org
• 📜 [Maine] An Act Regarding The Substance Use Disorder Services Commission - 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
• 💸 Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention - OJJDP FY25 Opioid Affected Youth Initiative - Deadline: May 8, 2026

Future

• 🗓️ AIDS United - Harm Reduction Futures Fund - Syringe Access / Overdose Prevention - Expected: TBA

📣 Activism

• 📣 Harm Reduction Coalition - Voices and Views Newsletter | Issue 37, 2026
• 📣 MYNGP - You’re Invited: Become An SSDP Ambassador!

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

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