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📰 News Media

• 💉 [National] U.S. overdose deaths fell again in 2025, but some worry about ... - latimes.com
• 🚬 [National] Trump’s flavored vape push sparks backlash from some MAHA influencers and administration officials - nbcnews.com
• 💳 [National] Pot Inc. may finally be inching closer to the US bank access it craves - nypost.com
• 👶 [National] Ten Years After Motherisk, Parents Who Use Drugs Still Punished - filtermag.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 The collective motto that everyone involved in work surrounding people who use drugs should be repeating is: "We are here to help with making things safer; we are not here to be saviors." From harm reductionists, to... - @azzy-mae on linkedin

Innovation

• 🧪 5/16: Cville: trustworthy folks are reporting a batch of cocaine in town that’s cut with fentanyl. Please test your supply and don’t use alone. Reshare this post. Cville Harm Reduction is distributing test strips... - @kathrynlaughon on Bluesky
• 📵 SAHMSA just ruled that #fentanyl test strips and #OverdosePrevention phone hotlines are BANNED from receiving HHS grant money meant for life-saving harm reduction, reversing their 2025 decision. People WILL die... - @volare on Bluesky

Opposition Views

• 🚫 There’s a difference between helping and enabling. I believe the harm reduction plan is more enabling than not and costs Colorado millions of dollars. Also, remember when open drug use was not allowed and people... - @MelissaFel29655 on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 💉 Single-step versus multi-step intranasal naloxone devices for overdose response: A randomized usability study in an at-risk population - The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - 2026-05-12 - doi.org
• 💉 Numbers from New York City OPCs suggest benefits of approach - Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly - 2026-05-14 - doi.org
• 🧪 State Xylazine Scheduling and Changes in Xylazine and Medetomidine Reports in the U.S. Illicit Drug Supply: A Quasi-Experimental Study - 2026-05-15 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

State Laws

• 📜 [Georgia] Behavioral Health Care Workforce Data Base; expand to include data from licensed health care professionals - openstates.org

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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

• 📅 Faces & Voices of Recovery - Register for free ORN virtual recovery trainings and events
• 💜 Shatterproof - Donate to Shatterproof for mental health awareness support

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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