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📰 News Media

• 📊 [National] Patients with opioid use disorder diagnoses increased almost 33 percent from 2022 to 2025 - fairhealth.org
• 🧪 [Ritenour, MO] Wastewater Testing for School Safety Program - ritenourschools.org
• ⚠️ [Los Angeles County, CA] Health officials warn of emerging synthetic opioid after fatal overdoses - yahoo.com
• ⚠️ [National] Cychlorphine Is a New Opioid Hidden in Counterfeit Pills - psychologytoday.com
• 🛡️ [Canada] Risk factors of sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections and access to harm reduction in Canadian federal prisons - canada.ca

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Innovation

• 📱 💡CNRSP Member Research Spotlight!💡 Cannabis use can complicate recovery from first-episode psychosis (FEP). Dr. Coronado-Montoya et al., including CNRSP members, assessed the feasibility of CHAMPS, a digital... - @thecnrsp on Bluesky

Opposition Views

• 🚫 "Safe consumption sites" (an oxymoron if I've ever heard one) Are what drew in addicts and dealers and have ruined every community they have ever been forcefully placed in...With skyrocketing crime and discarded... - @Phlebiacclown on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 💊 Closing surveillance detection gaps for emerging digital drug discourse with ontology-enhanced large language models - npj Digital Public Health - 2026-10-16 - doi.org
• 🧠 The prison-to-community transition as a neuropeptide stress test: an allostatic continuity agenda for addiction care - Advances in Drug and Alcohol Research - 2026-10-14 - doi.org
• 💊 Methadone Treatment Practice in a Changing Landscape: Limited Early Adoption of the Federal Final Rule Among U.S. Opioid Treatment Programs - Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs - 2026-10-15 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

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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

• 📣 Housing Not Handcuffs Campaign - Find a No Kings Day Rally and Bring a Housing Not Handcuffs Sign
• 🏠 National Alliance to End Homelessness - Sign Up for State Advocacy in the November 18 Keep People Home Day of Action

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