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📰 News Media

• 🌍 [National] What’s Next for South Africa’s Drug-User Rights Movement? - filtermag.org
• 📉 [National] The Year in Drugs 2025 - Opioid Data Lab - opioiddata.org
• 🍺 [National] 6 takeaways from STAT’s investigation into the U.S. alcohol epidemic - statnews.com
• 📰 [National] It’s Not the Drugs: Sexual Violence under Prohibition and Patriarchy - talkingdrugs.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 I am honored to work as a specialist in substance‑use recovery, it allows me to give others the hope that they, too, can recover. As a mother who struggled with substance use while raising my children, and as the... - @janice-v-johnson-182444352 on linkedin

Innovation

• 🧪 🚨Heightened Threat: Fentanyl Mixed with Emerging Synthetic Drugs Today’s illicit drug supply is more dangerous, more deceptive, and more deadly than ever before. One pill, one try can kill. Law enforcement and... - @LynnwoodTimes on X
• 🤖 An experimental drug developed using artificial intelligence shows promise in treating opioid use disorder. The medication significantly lowered fentanyl intake in rodents by targeting serotonin receptors, promoting... - @PsyPost on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 rose sharply even as billions flowed into services, shelters, and housing programs. Policies like Measure 110, which decriminalized hard drugs, coincided with visible disorder, open drug use, and slower treatment... - @joedaddygone654 on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 🚨 Access to non-police crisis response for people who use drugs: lessons from community safety response programs in two U.S. cities - BMC Public Health - 2026-05-12 - doi.org
• 🧪 Source Matters: An Examination of Drug Checking Samples from Police Departments and Community Based Programs in Massachusetts - 2026-05-12 - doi.org
• 🚑 The Role of Emergency Medical Services in Addressing Opioid Use Disorder – A Position Statement and Resource Document of NAEMSP - Prehospital Emergency Care - 2026-05-11 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

Federal Agencies

• ⚖️ [United States] [Final Rule] Schedules of Controlled Substances: Placement of CUMYL-PEGACLONE in Schedule I - federalregister.gov

State Laws

• 📜 [Minnesota] Kratom; legal age to possess kratom established as 21 years of age or older. - 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

📣 Activism

• 📣 Students for Sensible Drug Policy - Contact federal representatives to decriminalize cannabis now
• 📣 The National Council for Mental Wellbeing - Tell Congress to release delayed SAMHSA funding opportunities

Update Notes

May 13, 2026 (#ae2d1c6) — Trying a new method of sourcing Substack articles and folding them into the curation process. I love feedback and requests – [email protected]

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