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📰 News Media

• 💉 [Philadelphia, PA] Overdose deaths in Philadelphia are decreasing - inquirer.com
• 🌿 [Oakland, CA] We Need to Talk About Extra Strong Weed - talkingdrugs.org
• 🩸 [National] Scaling back harm reduction will scale up blood-borne infections - blog.catie.ca
• 🧠 [International] MARC B. AIXALÀ: Bad trips can transform into potentially positive outcomes - drogriporter.hu
• 🧪 [National] Experimental Alzheimer’s drug could reduce alcohol withdrawal damage, researchers say - foxnews.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 Another way a regulation requiring doctors to keep supplying their opioid addicted patients would help is that our Former Heroin Crisis became the Fentanyl Crisis and it's very difficult for an Addict seeking Heroin... - @kythra on Bluesky

Innovation

• 🤝 Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Los Angeles and San Francisco distribute drug use supplies — including sterile syringes, smoking pipes, foil, and straws — as part of harm reduction programs. The same... - @corbinwilliams on X
• 🏥 How they work: Enrolled veterans living in the housing units can scan their VA credentials to access the machines anonymously 24/7. What they dispense: Sterile syringes, alcohol swabs, wound care kits, naloxone... - @Acruzn808 on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 The courts have to follow the laws. HUD is changing the funding model away from Housing First as we speak. We can treat SUD by building 365 day treatment centers away from our city neighborhoods. Housing only for... - @savagecitizens on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 💊 County-Level Uptake of Take-Home Methadone and Adverse Events Among Commercially Insured Individuals - Journal of Addiction Medicine - 2026-05-25 - doi.org
• 💻 From access to sustainability: understanding telemedicine-based buprenorphine induction through a RE-AIM lens - Addiction Science & Clinical Practice - 2026-05-26 - doi.org
• 💊 Medication and Acute Care Use in Young Adults With Opioid Use Subject to Medicaid Prescription Caps - JAMA Health Forum - 2026-05-22 - 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

• 💜 Shatterproof - Donate to Shatterproof for Mental Health Awareness Month

Update Notes

May 26, 2026 (#94f0e3e) — Introducing audit for News section performance. Expanding Innovation scan in Social to include systems modeling, SOURCE, Recovery Viability Theory, etc. Adding more sources to targeted Lived(-ing) experience scan (thank you Austin Brown and others for suggestions!). I love feedback and requests – [email protected]

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