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📰 News Media

• 🩹 [Los Angeles, CA] Skid Row - laist.com
• 💊 [National] [](/) - aprilpride.substack.com
• 🚑 [Louisiana] WBRZ Investigative Unit: Two Angola inmates fatally overdose; three deaths in as many days in state facilities - wbrz.com
• ⚠️ [National] They Tried Kratom for Its Purported Health Benefits, Then They Became Addicted - nytimes.com
• 🏛️ [Yukon] Health minister rethinks Yukon's substance use emergency strategy - ca.news.yahoo.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

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Innovation

• 🩺 Sexual health needs are being missed among women who use drugs. That's the findings of a national study led by Burnet researchers. The findings have prompted calls for sexual healthcare to be better integrated into... - @burnetinstitute on Bluesky

Opposition Views

• 🚫 “Harm Reduction” is enabling. Not having to purchase paraphernalia for using, an Addict will purchase Drugs. Most likely the paraphernalia is trafficked to the Addict. Vicious cycle! It’s always a numbers game!... - @ErinPugh6780 on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 🛟 Short- and long-term outcome evaluation of a university-based opioid overdose education and naloxone distribution (OEND) program - Frontiers in Public Health - 2026-11-04 - doi.org
• 🛡️ Exploring Harm Reduction Practices in Sexualized Drug Use Among Sexual Minority Adults in California - Contemporary Drug Problems - 2026-11-01 - doi.org
• 🍺 The feasibility of conducting longitudinal, quantitative research within and about a managed alcohol program for men in Scotland, UK - Drugs Education Prevention and Policy - 2026-10-31 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

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💸 Funding (Click to expand)

Current

• 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
• Deadline Approaching · 🧒 Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention - OJJDP FY 2026 Opioid Affected Youth Initiative - 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 the plan presented to address it. - Expected: Jan 1, 2027

📣 Activism

• 🎟️ National Harm Reduction Coalition - Get tickets for NHRC’s 30th anniversary fundraiser in Brooklyn
• 💻 Mobilize Recovery - Register for Mobilize Recovery’s December 9 Virtual Community Gathering
• 🤝 Johnny’s Ambassadors - Join Johnny’s Ambassadors to support cannabis education and policy advocacy

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