Harm Reduction Briefing — Oct 13, 2026
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📰 News Media
- 🍄 [Oregon] Psilocybin providers follow safety guidelines, study finds - medicalxpress.com
- 💰 [National] States Now Have to Decide How to Spend Meta’s Settlement Billions - nytimes.com
- 💰 [Michigan] Here's where millions in opioid settlement funds are headed in Michigan - detroitnews.com
- ⚖️ [Oklahoma] Oklahomans are becoming addicted to kratom. Lawmakers could act - oklahoman.com
- 🧭 The Growing Wave of Fraud and Skepticism in the Recovery Field - recoveryreview.blog
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
- No posts found today.
Innovation
- 🧪 Thank you to the Transparency Triple Check for confident at-home substance testing 🙏🧪 1️⃣ Screen with substance-specific test strips. 2️⃣ Identify using multiple reagents. 3️⃣ Verify by comparing your results with... - @BunkPolice on X
- 📊 and then it hit me, because I remember seeing studies about this and it could be important if there's a new and more dangerous drug @Gina_McDee @SusanDReynolds question posed >>> isn't the CDC supposed to track... - @auweia1 on X
Opposition Views
- No posts found today.
🏙 City Updates
- No recent City Updates found.
📚 Academic Research
- 💉 Harm reduction services in female prisons: a scoping review exploring the situation in the MENA region - International Journal of Prison Health - 2026-10-13 - doi.org
- 💊 Evidence for Harm Reduction Programming: Prevalence and Risk Factors of Tramadol Use among Adolescents in Juba, South Sudan - Asian Journal of Medicine and Health - 2026-10-12 - doi.org
- 💊 Health Information Technology Infrastructure and Availability of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder and Naloxone in U.S. Substance Use Disorder Treatment Facilities - The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research - 2026-10-12 - 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
- 🧒 Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention - OJJDP FY 2026 Mentoring for Youth Impacted by Opioids and Other Substance Use - Deadline: Nov 16, 2026
📣 Activism
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Featured Resource
SafeSpot is a free, confidential, 24/7 overdose prevention hotline for people using drugs alone. A trained peer stays on the phone and can contact help if you become unresponsive. Call 1-800-972-0590.
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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