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📰 News Media

• ⚖️ [National] Trump Administration Backs Down on an Opioid Ban After Kratom Industry Lobbying - nytimes.com
• 🚨 [Las Vegas, NV] Meth is killing more people than fentanyl in Las Vegas and a new deadly drug is here - yahoo.com
• 📊 [National] Tracking Key Mental Health and Substance Use Policy Actions Under the Trump Administration - kff.org
• 🧪 [National] We keep trying the same failed strategy to make the drug supply safer - whatsitlike.me
• 🔬 [Maryland] Ashley Addiction Treatment Opens Maryland’s First Freestanding Research Center Embedded within a Treatment Campus - baltimoretimes-online.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💊 Thanks ❤️. Yeah, it’s subjective anyway but one of the worst things I ever went thru in my life was precipitated withdrawals induced by a massive 16mg overdose of buprenorphine (aka suboxone) at a rehab facility in... - @dieselbabyy on X

Innovation

• 💊 Evaluating a novel pharmacist-led buprenorphine outreach service for treatment of opioid use disorder in individuals residing in supportive housing Janice Ly Pharm.D., Damian Peterson Pharm.D., Michelle Geier... - @auweia1 on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 You fucking leftist retards have ruined my city. The ‘harm reduction’ horseshit here has exploded the homeless population. It doesn’t ‘reduce’ harm, it exacerbates it. These money sucking programs incentivize... - @curtisonthehill on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 🚬 E-cigarettes and other tobacco and nicotine products:an update overview - Revista de Patología Respiratoria - 2026-10-26 - doi.org
• 🩺 Changing National and Regional Trends in Drug Use-Associated Infective Endocarditis From 2016 to 2022 - Clinical Infectious Diseases - 2026-10-27 - doi.org
• 💊 Advancing opioid agonist treatment in Ireland: opportunities for expanded use of prolonged-release buprenorphine following the 2026 HSE funding allocation - Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine - 2026-10-26 - 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
• 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

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