Featuring content from daily briefings generated July 31, 2026 through August 3, 2026.

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📰 News Media (Click for more)

• 💉 [National] International Overdose Awareness Day 2015 - harmreduction.org
• 💉 [National] Orienting patients to greater opioid safety: models of ... - harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com
• 💉 [National] Policy & Advocacy Work | National Harm Reduction ... - harmreduction.org
• 🚬 [National] The unique contribution of e-cigarettes for tobacco harm ... - harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com
• 🩹 [National] Find Harm Reduction Resources Near You - harmreduction.org

🗣️ Social Pulse (Click for more)

Lived/Living Experience

• 🧠 I was dropping my kids off when we drove past a man lying face down beside the sidewalk. I pulled over, grabbed my naloxone, and went to check on him. He was barely conscious, completely out of it. The visible toll... - @guyfelicella on X

Innovation

• 🧪 Official Vanguard COA Confirms Studz’s Beebo Sample Is Negative for Fentanyl We now have Vanguard Laboratory’s official COA for a liquid 5-Amino-1MQ sample purchased directly from Beebo by Studz. The sample tested... - @Krysia830073 on X
• 🧯 ok I just wanna tell u be fucking careful!! test ur shit w fentanyl and xylazine test strips bc that shit will kill u real quick (it did me im lucky to be alive rn) & sleep on the regular like 2 hours a day at LEAST... - @dxmfairy on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Lucky you. Im an addict Who goes to meetings and harm reduction kills mote than it saves. I see them die daily. Do you go to meetings and help through abstinence. It works way better. Harm Reduction is unaffective... - @I_gotta_wonder on X

🏙 City Updates

• 📧 - [Louisville, KY] - July 31, 2026 - Harm Reduction Outreach Services expands hepatitis C testing in Louisville - view newsletter online for more info

📚 Academic Research (Click for more)

• 🧠 Community Advisory Board Members Speak Out: Insights From an Opioid Overdose Study - Health Expectations - 2026-08-01 - doi.org
• 🧠 Suicidal ideation, mental health services, and barriers to care among syringe services program clients who use opioids - PLoS ONE - 2026-07-30 - doi.org
• 🧫 The impact of harm reduction interventions on injection‐related bacterial infections among people who inject drugs: A systematic review - Addiction - 2026-08-02 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy (Click for more)

City Ordinances

• 🏙️ [Milwaukee, WI] A substitute ordinance relating to penalties for the sale of alcohol, tobacco, and cannabinoid products to minors. - milwaukee.legistar.com
• 🏙️ [Milwaukee, WI] Resolution relating to the marketing of nicotine pouches to youth. - milwaukee.legistar.com

💸 Funding (Click to expand)

Current

• 🔬 National Institutes of Health - Establishing a Center for the Advancement of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Pharmacotherapeutics through Training and Preclinical Support (U54 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) - Deadline: Sep 30, 2026
• 🔬 National Institutes of Health - Limited Competition: Growing Great Ideas: Research Education Course in Entrepreneurship and Product Development for Researchers Studying Drug Use, Drug Misuse, and Drug Addiction (UE5 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) - Deadline: Oct 1, 2026
• 🔬 National Institutes of Health - Development of Interventions to Prevent and Treat Substance Use Disorders and Overdose (UG3/UH3 - Clinical Trial Optional) - Deadline: Aug 21, 2028
• 🔬 National Institutes of Health - Avant Garde/Avenir Awards for Investigators Conducting High Risk/High Reward Research on HIV and Substance Use (or Substance Use Disorders) (DP1 Clinical Trial Optional) - Deadline: Sep 25, 2028

📣 Activism

• ✍️ National Harm Reduction Coalition - Submit CDC comments on syringe services program survey revisions
• 💜 Shatterproof - Donate to Shatterproof’s July 2026 recovery advocacy work

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