Featuring content from daily briefings generated August 11, 2026 through August 13, 2026.

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📰 News Media (Click for more)

• 🍃 [Austin, TX] Are THC products still on Texas shelves safe? It’s complicated, experts say - dallasobserver.com
• 🌿 [Dutchess County (Beacon referenced), NY] Dutchess County kratom ban leaves advocates unhappy as some products are still legal - wamc.org
• 🧪 [National, North Carolina] Service Delivery in a Dynamic Drug Market: Building on Successes of SSP Service Delivery in North Carolina - opioiddata.org
• 🚨 [National, International] US defense secretary says Colombia's president has requested US collaboration in anti-drug efforts - apnews.com
• 🛡️ [National] We Need to Focus on Violence Against Women Who Use Drugs - filtermag.org

🗣️ Social Pulse (Click for more)

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 Lewis Wright - known to many around southern Ohio as Menace - is a musician, motorcycle enthusiast, father, husband, cancer survivor, and as someone with a lived experience of substance use, an advocate for... - @index on Bluesky

Innovation

• 🧠 @Super_Powers_AI Hey Super, build an interactive Overdose Emergency Response Simulator grounded in evidence-based SAMHSA and American Heart Association emergency protocols. (link) The first viewport features a live... - @RohanArun on X
• 📈 Bayesian ACCESS for Understanding Latent Epidemic Trajectories from Publicly Released Suppressed Data: Application to U.S. Opioid-related Overdose Mortality Jiahao Cao, Kehe Zhang, Cici Bauer (link) [𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚝.𝙼𝙴 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚝.𝙰𝙿] - @StatisticsME on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 The disastrous era of harm reduction and housing first is finally over. Folks like @Twolfrecovery and me have fought for years for Treatment First. It’s incredible to see this come to fruition under the Trump-Vance... - @SoledadUrsua on X

🏙 City Updates

• 📧 - [Oklahoma City, OK] - August 12, 2026 - Key to Home expands CARE Team with support from the Oklahoma City Community Foundation - view newsletter online for more info
• 📧 - [Oklahoma City, OK] - August 10, 2026 - Construction begins on MAPS 4 Robert Ravitz Crisis Center - view newsletter online for more info

📚 Academic Research (Click for more)

• 💉 Evaluation of Naloxone Training & Cultural Tailoring Recommendations from Billings Urban Indian Health and Wellness Staff - RVU Elevate - 2026-08-07 - doi.org
• 💊 Patient-Reported Versus Pharmacy-Verified Naloxone Co-Prescription Fill Rates in a Chronic Pain Clinic: A Cross-Sectional Discordance Analysis - Pain Medicine - 2026-08-07 - doi.org
• 💊 Probable naltrexone-precipitated opioid withdrawal in a patient receiving methadone maintenance after use of a weight-loss medication obtained through a direct-to-consumer telemedicine platform: a case report - Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention and Policy - 2026-08-07 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

Federal Agencies

• 🧪 [United States] [Final Rule] Schedules of Controlled Substances: Temporary Placement of O-Desmethyltramadol in Schedule I - federalregister.gov

State Laws

• 💊 [Illinois] SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER SERVICE - openstates.org

💸 Funding (Click to expand)

Current

• NEW · Deadline Approaching · 🚑 Office of National Drug Control Policy - Nonfatal Overdoses in Emergency Departments: Bridging Patient Characteristics, Biospecimen Toxicology, and Drug Supply Composition - Deadline: Aug 31, 2026
• Deadline Approaching · 🩺 Centers for Disease Control-GHC - Improving regional capacity to respond to HIV, TB, and other global health priorities in Central America - Deadline: Aug 31, 2026
• 🔬 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

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