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📰 News Media

• 💊 [National] Help More Providers Prescribe with Confidence - fda.gov
• 🏥 [Pittsfield, MA] Mass. health secretary tours Pittsfield’s Brien Center to hear local concerns around addiction, crisis care, loneliness - wamc.org
• 🧠 [National] SUD Linked to Higher Risk for Generalized Anxiety Disorder - medscape.com
• ⚖️ [Texas] Grieving Texas mom fights to ban drug feds call 'gas station heroin' - abc13.com
• 🚔 [Winnipeg, Manitoba] Open drug use crackdown ends November 1 - ca.news.yahoo.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 It is alarming how much it is being treated like a drug, the levels of addiction are scary. Not even saying that with judgement but as a former alcoholic and knowing my own battles with addiction, it comes off the same. - @glimmergremlin on Bluesky

Innovation

• 📟 The biosensor used in this study detected respiration, physical activity and consciousness, to monitor if someone was experiencing a drug overdose. Hnízdilová and colleagues interviewed 21 people who use drugs... - @knowyourstuffnz on Bluesky
• 🩺 Biosensors for PWUD is still a technology in its early days, and this study illustrates there are many quality of life improvements to be made. Nevertheless, biosensing for drug overdose is feasible and could prove... - @knowyourstuffnz on Bluesky

Opposition Views

• 🚫 The real and disastrous legacy of @Dave_Eby, @BCNDP @BCGreens @ptfry @CopeVancouver @seanOrr rest of the 'safe supply,' 'harm reduction' ideologues-👇-the worst public health(drugs) and safety(crime) crisis I've seen... - @StephenKalil on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 💊 Implementing Community-Based Medication-Assisted Recovery for Opioid Use Disorder - Journal of Doctoral Nursing Practice - 2026-10-15 - doi.org
• 🎮 Evaluation of Purple Town, a prevention program using a mobile game to address young people’s exposure to alcohol and cannabis marketing: a cluster randomized controlled trial among NEETs (Preprint) - 2026-10-13 - doi.org
• 💉 Attitudes Among Physician Associates Regarding Naloxone Prescribing for the Treatment of Opioid Overdose - Cureus - 2026-10-10 - 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

• 🏠 National Alliance to End Homelessness - Sign up for the November 18 Keep People Home National Day of Action

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Newsletter Improvements

October 16, 2026 (#d5d311e) - Better internal tracking. Whitelisting more publishers. Better duplicate check for News section. I love feedback and requests - [email protected]

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