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📰 News Media

• 🏥 [Canada] Substance use driving increases in emergency department visits, hospitalizations for young mothers - medicalxpress.com
• 🧠 [National] The Trump administration moves to treat millions of mentally ill veterans with psychedelics - politico.com
• 💊 [Wilmington, MA] National Drug Take Back Day: Mass. residents dispose of old medications - boston25news.com
• 🌿 [National] Popular cannabis sleep gummies may have a hidden dark side - sciencedaily.com
• 🚭 [National] Selena Gomez's vaping admission highlights hidden health risks doctors say millions face daily - foxnews.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 🛟 I don’t speak much about the journey I have been on for the last 12 months But today is a massive Milestone for me… I battled addiction issues for years but today I celebrate my first birthday milestone across 3... - @ombudtjugotva on Bluesky

Innovation

• 💊 Safer-Supply Opioid Machines (MySafe) What they do: Dispense prescribed pharmaceutical-grade hydromorphone (Dilaudid) pills to screened adults. How they work: Users access the machine via a biometric palm-scan to... - @wapimaskwa69 on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Instead of trying to stop the organized drug dealers and drug use, San Francisco focused on this message: "Do it with friends." That's why harm reduction has taken a back seat to recovery as a policy. Yet, state law... - @Twolfrecovery on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 🚭 Editorial: Adolescent smoking, alcohol consumption and psychoactive substance misuse in low-middle income countries - Frontiers in Public Health - 2026-10-21 - doi.org
• 💊 Chemsex and its implications for human immunodeficiency virus risk, testing, and prevention among men who have sex with men in Hong Kong - Advances in Drug and Alcohol Research - 2026-10-22 - doi.org
• 🚑 Community Paramedics Addressing the Evolving Opioid Crisis: A Case Series Addressing the Kratom Derivatives 7-Hydroxymitragynine and MGM-15 - Prehospital Emergency Care - 2026-10-22 - 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 - Contact Your Representative to Support Housing Funding by October 30

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Newsletter Improvements

October 26, 2026 (#614f8b1) - Adding more publishers. I love feedback and requests - [email protected]

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