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📰 News Media

• ⚖️ [CA] Gavin Newsom’s soft-on-crime budget torched by law enforcement - nypost.com
• 💉 [National] Nationally, Overdose Is Still Going Down. In the West, It's ... - Filter - filtermag.org
• 🧠 [National] “Striking Increase” in Public Support for Legal Access to Psychedelics - filtermag.org
• 📲 [National] Social Media Drug Groups Are Changing the Dealing Game - talkingdrugs.org
• 💉 [National] US overdose deaths fell again in 2025, but some worry about policy and drug supply changes - ajc.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 I’ve been housed for almost 6 years. But I only have 5 months sober. After getting housed, I still used heroin and meth daily for years. I overdosed alone in my apartment repeatedly. I got arrested multiple times. I... - X

Innovation

• 🗞️ Earlier this month in Paterson, we set up 5 refurbished newspaper stands and filled them with naloxone, the medication that reverses overdose deaths. 2 weeks later, over 500 cartons have been dispensed. And zero... - @zellieimani on X
• 📦 Kent County sees decline in overdose deaths thanks to naloxone access efforts. The Red Project, a local harm-reduction nonprofit, has been placing free naloxone kits inside repurposed red newspaper boxes throughout... - bsky.app

Opposition Views

• 🚫 9th & Lincoln. A block away is the Harm Reduction Action Center (8th & Lincoln), a facility that distributes drug use supplies like foil, straws, and meth pipes to acutely addicted individuals. Does this look like... - @dobetterdnvr on X

🏙 City Updates

• 📧 - [Sacramento, California] - May 15, 2026 - A Family’s Mission Following Fentanyl Loss - newsletter - content.govdelivery.com
• 📧 - [San Jose, California] - May 15, 2026 - 2026 May: Harm Reduction Program Newsletter - content.govdelivery.com

📚 Academic Research

• 🏥 Changes in community-level pedestrian stops following overdose prevention center implementation in New York City: An augmented synthetic control approach. - Epidemiology - 2026-05-15 - doi.org
• 💉 Trends in Fentanyl Adulteration from Rapid Drug Analysis and Research (RaDAR) Drug Checking Samples, January 2024 to January 2026 - 2026-05-13 - doi.org
• 🧠 Impact of a First‐Year Doctor of Pharmacy Seminar Course on Stigmatizing Beliefs: A Qualitative Analysis - JACCP JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CLINICAL PHARMACY - 2026-05-12 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

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Current

• 💸 Centers for Disease Control - NCIPC - Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) - Deadline: Jun 8, 2026
• 💸 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis - Providers Clinical Support System – Substance Use Disorder Treatment (PCSS-SUD Treatment) - Deadline: Jun 15, 2026

📣 Activism

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

Update Notes

May 14, 2026 (#93c92cb) — Adding duplication guard to manual academic submission. Fixing some diagnostics in News section. More consistently source signups for other City newsletters. I love feedback and requests – contact@christianarthur.tech

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