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📰 News Media

• 🌿 [Colorado] Colorado Unlawfully Inflated Cannabis Excise Tax Base, Suit Says - news.bgov.com
• 🩺 [Albuquerque, NM] Fentanyl, meth found at house where New Mexico responders got sick after answering overdose call - ajc.com
• 💉 [Portland, Oregon] Commissioners Dismiss Pushback Over Proposed Ban on Needle ... - wweek.com
• 🧪 [National] NIDA Explains Link Between Drugs and HIV, Without Mentioning Syringes - filtermag.org
• ☠️ [Mountainair, New Mexico] 'Illicit' version of fentanyl linked to deadly New Mexico incident that sickened first responders - foxnews.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 As a recovering heroin addict, off that shit for 13 years. If NOT I’d be dead. Truth, I ODed twice, fell out another time & went down six steps, smashed my head on marble flooring & Split my shit wide open. I can’t... - @mattconzo on X

Innovation

• 🧪 You can get a fentanyl test strip or a testing cup— a fentanyl tester will tell you if it contains fentanyl and a testing cup will tell you everything that’s in it. These things are usually accessible for free in... - @SoulforEmpathy on X
• 🧑 StillHere. Software for people who use drugs to stay alive when recovery isn't the goal. Harm reduction, not abstinence. - @polsia on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Even deep red states and cities do needle exchange and other harm reduction services. It's one way that law enforcement, public health, and others reach out to people who experience the highest levels of need. You... - @mlottmanier on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 💉 Providers’ perspectives on what heroin-assisted treatment ought to be: a qualitative study - BMC Health Services Research - 2026-05-21 - doi.org
• 💊 “It was good because they have a relationship with us”: A qualitative study on low-threshold buprenorphine treatment at syringe services programs - Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment - 2026-05-20 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

State Laws

• 📜 [Tennessee] Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires each local education agency and public charter school to annually implement an evidence-based substance abuse and violence prevention program in each school that serves students in any of the grades three through 12 to reduce tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug use by students. - Amends TCA Title 49. - openstates.org
• 📜 [Tennessee] Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Helping Open Pathways to Effective (HOPE) Treatment Act." - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 33; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68. - 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

• 📞 National Alliance to End Homelessness - Contact Congress to release FY2025 homelessness grant funds
• 💜 Shatterproof - Donate to Shatterproof for Mental Health Awareness Month

Update Notes

May 24, 2026 (#16a92e7) — Improving de-dupe in City Updates section. I love feedback and requests – [email protected]

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