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📰 News Media

• 📊 [Erie, PA] Erie wastewater data shows rise in illicit drug usage - yahoo.com
• 🏥 [Maine] Some addiction treatment services in Maine aren’t financially sustainable, provider warns - pressherald.com
• ⚖️ Submission to SR on Torture- Practical measures to reduce and prevent prison overcrowding - Harm Reduction International - hri.global
• 🧠 [National] Team publishes largest-ever dataset on real-world psychedelic support interactions - medicalxpress.com
• 🚨 [Fredericton, New Brunswick] N.B. police issue public safety alert over suspected drug overdose spike in capital - ca.news.yahoo.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 They have treated me like an unsaveable monster at numerous rehabs, sober houses, therapists, and psychiatrists bc i was an opioid user with borderline personality disorder - @phantomtransy on X

Innovation

• 🤖 Using agentic AI in SUD treatment. Developing programs that can help alert family of cash withdrawals, location monitoring (old drug pickup locations), text monitoring, communication with addictionologist etc. We... - @WestermanRobbie on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Long term secure residential programs and expansion of self harm laws is the only way to start to address drug addiction and street life. Serious and brutally truthful education from a very young age. Serious long... - @IBAConservative on X

🏙 City Updates

• 📧 - [Louisville, KY] - October 30, 2026 - Mayor Greenberg and LMPHW announce youth-driven “Louder Than Smoke” anti-vaping campaign - view newsletter online for more info

📚 Academic Research

• 💧 Volumetric dilution nasal spray as a harm reduction strategy for intranasal psychoactive substance use: a practical framework and rationale - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-10-30 - doi.org
• 🏥 Substance Use Disorder Treatment in the United States and Switzerland’s Four-Pillar Addiction Model - Cureus - 2026-10-28 - doi.org
• 🧠 Fifty years at the addiction bench and bedside: from withdrawal syndromes to adaptive brain states - Frontiers in Public Health - 2026-10-27 - 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

Future

• NEW · 🌱 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Centering Compassion to Create Community and Government Systems that Promote Wellbeing for All - Expected: Dec 9, 2026
• 🧠 Elevance Health Foundation - Behavioral Health - Grant ranges are open; funding levels are determined based on several factors, including the need and the plan presented to address it. - Expected: Jan 1, 2027

📣 Activism

• 📚 Shatterproof - Register for Shatterproof’s November 12 Webinar on Kratom Policy and Treatment
• 🎟️ National Harm Reduction Coalition - Attend NHRC’s 30th Anniversary Fundraiser in Brooklyn, New York
• 📣 Johnny’s Ambassadors - Join Johnny’s Ambassadors to Support Cannabis Education and Policy Efforts

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Newsletter Improvements

October 31, 2026 (#ef436b4) - Fixing issue that duplicated hits yesterday. Adding more news sources. Expanding analytics. I love feedback and requests - [email protected]

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