Harm Reduction Briefing — Nov 01, 2026
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📰 News Media
- 🛟 [Los Angeles, CA] Help at MacArthur Park - Los Angeles - laist.com
- ⚖️ [Colorado] Colorado Proposition 132’s proposed drastic penalties for fentanyl: A dangerous overreaction - reason.org
- ⚖️ [Oregon] Taxes and Drug Debacle Help GOP Loosen Liberal Grip Over Oregon - news.bgov.com
- ⚖️ [Oklahoma] New Oklahoma laws on SNAP, marijuana, more start Nov. 1. Here's what changes. - oklahoman.com
- ⚠️ [California] California man shocked daily nitrous oxide habit wrecked his nerves, spine — now he’s suing distributors - nypost.com
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
Innovation
- 🤝 Surviving an overdose should never mean facing recovery alone. A new clinical trial at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is exploring an important question in addiction medicine. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲... - @muhamadalyrifai on X
- 🏨 Summary: This bill requires hotels to cooperate with harm reduction service providers to maintain opioid antidotes and supplies on-site and to train staff in their use, with hotels able to enter agreements with... - @congressbills on Bluesky
Opposition Views
🏙 City Updates
- No recent City Updates found.
📚 Academic Research
- 💉 "It Just Puts You Out!" Tranq Sleep, Sensory Discernment, and the Experience of Consuming Xylazine-Adulterated Fentanyl in Rural North Carolina - medRxiv - 2026-10-30 - doi.org
- 💊 Methadone treatment in the rural and urban United States: Geographic barriers and regional variations in Medicare-enrolled opioid treatment program availability - Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment - 2026-11-01 - doi.org
- 💊 County-level context and differential policy impacts on buprenorphine use among medicaid enrollees with opioid use disorder in Kentucky, 2018–2025 - Drug and Alcohol Dependence - 2026-11-01 - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
- No hits in Law and Policy today.
💸 Funding (Click to expand)
Current
- Deadline Approaching · 🛠️ Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA FY 2026 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (COSSUP) Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) - Deadline: Nov 2, 2026
- Deadline Approaching · 🧒 Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention - OJJDP FY 2026 Mentoring for Youth Impacted by Opioids and Other Substance Use - Deadline: Nov 16, 2026
Future
- 💛 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Centering Compassion to Create Community and Government Systems that Promote Wellbeing for All - Expected: Dec 9, 2026
- 🧠 Elevance Health Foundation - Behavioral Health - Grant ranges are open; funding levels are determined based on several factors, including the need and plan presented. Generally, grants last from one to three years. - Expected: Jan 1, 2027
📣 Activism
- 🚭 Mobilize Recovery - Join Ryan Hampton’s Nicotine Quit Journey and Follow Along
- 🎟️ National Harm Reduction Coalition - Get tickets for NHRC’s 30th anniversary fundraiser in Brooklyn
- 🎓 Shatterproof - Register for Shatterproof’s November 12 Webinar on Kratom Policy
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Newsletter Improvements
October 31, 2026 (#ef436b4) - Fixing issue that duplicated hits yesterday. Adding more news sources. Expanding analytics. I love feedback and requests - [email protected]
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