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📰 News Media

• 🩺 [Canada] Canada Has No Shortage of Ideas for the Overdose Crisis. It Has a Follow-Through Problem - goodmenproject.com
• ⚖️ [National] Scheduling doesn’t keep dangerous drugs out of our communities, but reducing demand could - R Street Institute - rstreet.org
• 🧰 [Baker, LA] National Recovery Month event in Baker focuses on overdose response training - wbrz.com
• 🌿 Cannabis is getting stronger, but doubling THC dose doesn't get you twice as 'high'—new study - medicalxpress.com
• 💊 [National] Why drug companies are rushing to market ketamine medicines - bostonglobe.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

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Innovation

• 🧪 The bigger win isn’t merely a safer high. It’s the chance to cut criminal revenue. Fund research across more substances, study addiction and long-term harm, then build safer legal options people prefer. Prohibition... - @FonsoLopez33 on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 This is directly related to the Homeless Industrial Complex, Addictions, "Harm Reduction", lack of drug enforcement, "Sanctuary Cities" and condoning drug and human trafficking, housing first, lack of Institutional... - @MsgFrmThMndFld on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 🧠 A Unified Architecture for 7-Hydroxymitragynine Recovery: Integrating Neuroscience, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and the Twelve-Step Tradition - 2026-10-19 - doi.org
• 🌿 Harm reduction perceptions among budtenders & young adults in a mock dispensary environment - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-10-15 - doi.org
• 🩺 Behavioral and psychosocial outcomes of harm reduction interventions among people who inject drugs: a mixed-methods study from India - Journal of Substance Use - 2026-10-20 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

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💸 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

• ✊ Housing Not Handcuffs Campaign - Bring Housing Not Handcuffs Signs to Tomorrow’s No Kings Rallies

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October 21, 2026 (#d324740) - Whitelisting more News sources. Patching dedupe and naming in Activism section. I love feedback and requests - [email protected]

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