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📰 News Media

• 💰 [New Jersey] NJ advocates demand stricter oversight of opioid ... - jerseyvindicator.org
• 🏛️ [National] Tracking Key Mental Health and Substance Use Policy Actions Under the Trump Administration - kff.org
• 🤖 One in three young adults use AI chatbots for drug and alcohol information, study finds - ca.news.yahoo.com
• 📊 [Wales] More than third of deaths of ex-prisoners on probation drug related, says report - ca.news.yahoo.com
• ⚖️ [Louisiana] Louisiana poised to stiffen penalties for fentanyl distribution, including life terms - wbrz.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 🛟 I'm chatting with an alcohol and drug recovery organisation today about forming peer support groups, keeping Mark's world in mind 'The truth is less tidy than ideology. I needed people to reduce the risks while I... - @luckyerica3 on Bluesky

Innovation

• 💉 🎤 Dr. Stryder Zobell discussed the outcomes of a new research study on the rapid induction of Extended-release Buprenorphine and how a novel approach to using it is helping engage high risk population in recovery.... - @RecovExcel on X
• 💉 📰 New research by CoRE suggests people with opioid use disorder (OUD) can be started on Sublocade® or similar (LAIB) without first completing the normal stabilization period. - @RecovExcel on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 No doubt it was not to help the addict or the everyday citizen. You do not help a gambler by placing them at a card table. You do not help a dieter by placing them at a buffet table. You do not help an addict by... - @TheDesertForge on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 🏥 Creating a national registry of patients presenting to emergency departments with opioid poisoning to inform clinical practice: the CEDRN opioid registry - Addiction Science & Clinical Practice - 2026-10-24 - doi.org
• 💉 Pharmacies supply needles and syringes for safer injecting drug use: A cross-sectional study in Germany, 2024 - 2026-10-26 - doi.org
• 💉 A Program Evaluation of Peer-To-Peer Naloxone Training: Effects on Substance Use Disorder Stigma and Knowledge Among University Students - American Journal of Health Education - 2026-10-26 - 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
• Deadline Approaching · 🧒 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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