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📰 News Media

• 🧠 [Boston, MA] Psychedelics therapy could save veterans’ lives - The Boston Globe - bostonglobe.com
• 🚨 [Los Angeles, CA] Ex-employee of needle-distributing nonprofit caught selling fentanyl ... - foxnews.com
• 🌿 [VA] Virginia Gov. Spanberger vetoes cannabis retail bill, pushing legal sales into 2027 at earliest - washingtontimes.com
• 🏛️ [National] With a Friend in Trump, the Tobacco Industry Secures a Lucrative Win - nytimes.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 @spencerpratt As a former homeless fentanyl/heroin addict in San Francisco, I was the exact person you’re talking about in this video. I openly used drugs on the streets for years. I was eventually housed, but... - @missamberreid on X

Innovation

• 🤖 An experimental drug developed using artificial intelligence shows promise in treating opioid use disorder. The medication significantly lowered fentanyl... (link) - @maryannlubeskie on X
• 📉 'It's not a hypothetical': Medical officer of health says #Ptbo CTS closure will drive more overdoses to ER. Local public health and harm reduction experts warn the loss of the supervised consumption site will... - @kawarthanow on Bluesky

Opposition Views

• 🚫 My plan to end homelessness—accountability, sobriety, code enforcement and help for people who can’t help themselves. We're not going to solve the homelessness and addiction crisis by focusing on housing first.... - @ChristineDrazan on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 💊 SAMHSA: Most OTPs have adopted most new methadone regulations - Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly - 2026-05-25 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

State Laws

• 📜 [Tennessee] Criminal Offenses - As introduced, expands the offense of adulteration of food, liquids, or pharmaceuticals to include adulteration for the purpose of making the user of the food, liquid, or pharmaceutical involuntarily intoxicated; classifies the offense as a Class D felony; requires a licensee that sells or offers samples of an intoxicating alcoholic beverage for consumption on the licensed premises to maintain drink drug testing devices for customers for the purpose of rapidly testing a beverage suspected of being spiked or laced with a controlled substance or drug. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 57. - 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 About Delayed FY2025 Homelessness Funding
• 💜 Shatterproof - Donate to Shatterproof for Mental Health Awareness Month

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May 25, 2026 (#33a1c9b) — Employing new strategies curtailing duplicated stories both intra-briefing and across days. Also employing new strategies helping ensure hits are correctly classified in Opposing Views. Blocking AI marketing from Social scan and adding recoveryreview.blog to News. I love feedback and requests – [email protected]

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