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📰 News Media

• 📊 [Minneapolis, MN] Study: Overdoses spiked after city swept homeless camps - axios.com
• 🛟 [North Carolina] Reducing drug harm in NC mountain counties - carolinapublicpress.org
• 🤝 [St. Paul, MN] How low-barrier treatment, culture-rooted care help Karen teens push back against opioids - minnpost.com
• ☠️ [San Francisco, CA] SF records first overdose death from a synthetic opioid sold at gas stations - sfstandard.com
• ⚠️ [San Francisco, CA] S.F. records first death from potent new opioid found in smoke shops - sfchronicle.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 🧠 Shitty day. Gonna be a shit weekend. Everyone in my family is drinking and as a former alcoholic with chronic pain, it's a lot of stress. - @sleepymaoist on Bluesky

Innovation

• 📱 The @LBProsecutor is serious about enhancing operational efficiency while adhering to strict data security requirements. 🔒 With Laserfiche they developed the GUIDES app. GUIDES enables officers to connect... - @laserfiche on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 🚨 THE HARM-REDUCTION EXPERIMENT HAS FAILED. THE BC NDP and the FEDERAL LIBERALS OWN THE MESS. Let’s stop sugar-coating it. Canadians have been guinea pigs in an ideological experiment that puts harm reduction ahead... - @homesnotbanks on X

🏙 City Updates

• 💉 - [New York, NY] - October 20, 2026 - NYC Health Department Extends Syringe Redemption Program After Getting More Than 3.5 Million Needles off the Streets - nyc.gov

📚 Academic Research

• 💉 Community naloxone distribution and administration reporting through the New York State overdose prevention program, 2016–2023: trends, reach, and overdose reversals - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-10-22 - doi.org
• 📊 The opioid crisis in different contexts around the world: a scoping review - Journal of Public Health - 2026-10-21 - doi.org
• 🍄 Who seeks ayahuasca and why? Participant profiles and engagement patterns in a community-based practice (2014-2026) - Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) - 2026-10-16 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

City Ordinances

• 🏙️ [Phoenix, AZ] Retroactive Authorization to Apply for and Accept the First Responders-Comprehensive Addiction Act Program (Ordinance S-53262) - Citywide - phoenix.legistar.com

💸 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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October 22, 2026 (#9d781d6) - Adding more keywords to scans: syringe litter, MGM-15. Whitelisting additional publications for News. Patching City Updates fetch issues. I love feedback and requests - [email protected]

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