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📰 News Media

• 💊 [National] Trump’s drug strategy aims to bolster addiction services — despite gutting government support - latimes.com
• 🚬 [National] Banning Cigarettes, Threatening Vapes: A New UK Landscape - Filter - filtermag.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 Our language has direct interpersonal impacts, but also immediate and long term impacts on the dominant discourse. As such, our language must capture, or leave space for the nuance of complex situations and... - @azzy-mae on linkedin

Innovation

• 🧪 Congressional Democrats write to SAMHSA seeking immediate reversal of policy that bars grantees from using funds for harm reduction tools like drug test strips for users. #addiction #overdose #fentanyl #opioids... - @aliciaault on Bluesky

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🟢 As one of our Overdose Prevention Program partners, Connection AOD helps expand access to overdose prevention supplies, including lifesaving naloxone (Narcan), on campus and in the community. (🧵3/4) - @PADrugAlcohol on X
• 🚫 It's not the social safety net its zero crackdown on degenerate behavior that has led to multiple generations behaving like shit. Also calling it empathetic to let people live outside and do drugs over being forced... - @billiceberg on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 💊 Implementing a Jail-Based Buprenorphine Program in a Small Appalachian Facility: Insights From CFIR and ERIC. - PubMed - 2026-05-08 - doi.org
• 💊 The characteristics and experiences of parents accessing prescribed safer supply in BC, 2020—2021 - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-05-10 - doi.org
• 💊 Uptake and Retention on Prescribed Psychostimulants for Harm Reduction: A Canadian Cohort Study - Substance Use &amp Addiction Journal - 2026-05-09 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

State Laws

• 📜 [Kansas] Substitute for SB 67 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Authorizing registered nurse anesthetists to prescribe, procure and administer drugs consistent with the registered nurse anesthetist's education and qualifications. - openstates.org

💸 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 13, 2026
• 💸 Centers for Disease Control - NCIPC - Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) - Deadline: Jun 8, 2026

Future

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

📣 Activism

• 📣 The National Council for Mental Wellbeing - Ask Congress to Support the Ensuring Excellence in Mental Health Act
• 🎥 Shatterproof - Join Shatterproof kratom webinar on research, risks, and policy

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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