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📰 News Media

• ⚖️ [National] Kratom industry engaged in multimillion lobbying effort to ban synthetic product while pushing natural version - nypost.com
• 💊 [National] Why Ketamine Immobilizes Some Users - nytimes.com
• 🏛️ [Colorado] Phil Weiser says fights as attorney general — including Meta, opioid settlements — set foundation for governorship - denverpost.com
• ⚠️ [Oxford, MS] Cause of death for Ole Miss students found dead with illegal kratom pills revealed in court - nypost.com
• ⚠️ [Baton Rouge, LA] 'One pill will kill:' Baton Rouge family warns of fentanyl dangers - wbrz.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 I've only been physically dependent on opioids. I'm going to be really honest. When my palliative doctor retired, I ended up having to take fentanyl from the street for 2 yrs. I almost died 3 X's from tranq that was... - @earthgodess48 on X

Innovation

• 🧪 Federal chemists just published 2 1/2 years of testing on the illegal drug supply: 4,563 samples, collected January 2024 through June 2026. The story isn't fentanyl. It's the rest of the bag: in early 2024 a sample... - @EdwarddMaier on X

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🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 🧪 Trust, place, and polysubstance use shape the feasibility of community-based drug checking in the Southern United States: A mixed-methods implementation study - 2026-10-11 - doi.org
• 🚑 Prehospital Buprenorphine: A National Cross-Sectional Analysis - Western Journal of Emergency Medicine - 2026-10-11 - doi.org
• 🧪 Rapid chemical profiling of ecstasy tablets using portable near-infrared spectroscopy for forensic intelligence and early response applications - Forensic Science International - 2026-10-08 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

City Ordinances

• 🌿 [New York, NY] ...relation to refusing to renew, suspending, or revoking a license of a tobacco retail dealer or an electronic cigarette retail dealer that has violated... - legistar.council.nyc.gov

💸 Funding (Click to expand)

Current

• 🛠️ Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA FY 2026 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (COSSUP) Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) - Deadline: Nov 2, 2026
• 🧒 Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention - OJJDP FY 2026 Mentoring for Youth Impacted by Opioids and Other Substance Use - Deadline: Nov 16, 2026

📣 Activism

• 📣 Operation Understanding - Contact Elected Officials to Expand Treatment, Overdose Prevention, and Recovery Resources
• 🛍️ Shatterproof - Wear Something That Means Something

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Featured Resource

Harm Reduction Vending Machine Readiness Toolkit

This Johns Hopkins decision-making toolkit helps public health agencies, community organizations, and advocates assess readiness, identify gaps, and plan a harm reduction vending-machine program.

Newsletter Improvements

October 9, 2026 (#a847640) - Updating publishers. Making city ordinance and Congress sections more consistent. I love feedback and requests - [email protected]

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