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📰 News Media

• 💊 [National] Telehealth leapfrogs FDA approval with off-label GLP-1 prescriptions for addiction - statnews.com
• 💊 [St. Paul, MN] Minnesota's Karen Teens Navigate 2 Cultures and an ... - mindsitenews.org
• ⚠️ [National] Drug Czar to Newsmax: Strong New Opioid From China - yahoo.com
• 💊 [Fayetteville, AR] Severe Kratom Withdrawal Induced by Oral Naltrexone - Medscape - medscape.com
• 🤝 [Location uncertain: International] Trauma Doesn’t Follow Funding Cycles - talkingdrugs.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

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Innovation

• 🧪 Leveraging fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy for community drug checking to bridge clinical care and harm reduction services: case report rdcu.be/XB4r8NpxnA8a - @seanmccormick on Bluesky
• 🤝 At University of Miami’s IDEA Exchange, Florida’s first legal syringe services program, peers with lived experience walk alongside patients as HIV care comes to them, without judgment. A randomized trial shows just... - @websedgemedicine on Bluesky

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Harm reduction became the whole strategy. Decriminalization knocked out enforcement, and even the Premier admits it "did not work." Prevention and treatment were starved. It preserved existence, but it didn't save... - @HiVizOllie on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• ⚖️ Impacts of decriminalization and its subsequent amendment on drug possession incidents and charges in British Columbia, Canada: Interrupted time series analyses (2013–2024) - Addiction - 2026-10-23 - doi.org
• 🧪 Lingering Norfentanyl: Considerations for Prolonged Clearance in Pregnancy Given Potential Clinical and Legal Implications - The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine - 2026-10-22 - doi.org
• 💊 Jail-based opioid treatment implementation, outcomes, and costs: lessons learned from the Massachusetts Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (MassJCOIN) - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-10-23 - 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

• 📣 National Alliance to End Homelessness - Contact Your Representative to Protect Housing and Homelessness Funding

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