Featuring content from daily briefings generated August 14, 2026 through August 17, 2026.

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📰 News Media (Click for more)

• 🧠 [National] Are Psychedelics Right-Wing Now? - newyorker.com
• 🧠 [National] Psychedelics amplify brain connectivity through serotonin receptors, study suggests - medicalxpress.com
• 🧑 [National] Three techniques to improve the flow, rhythm, and feel of addiction counseling - recoveryreview.blog
• 🧠 [National] Veterans with PTSD travel to other countries to access psychedelics - cbsnews.com
• 💉 [Augusta, ME] 3 organizations to receive grants from opioid settlement funds - centralmaine.com

🗣️ Social Pulse (Click for more)

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 Anti-euphoria is not what's going on. Concerns about addictive drugs (I'm a former addict) are about overdose deaths, are anti irresponsibility to children and family, and it takes into account the simple fact that... - @johnshirley2024 on Bluesky

Innovation

• 🧪 A local harm-reduction group is making waves by distributing Florida's first legal xylazine test strips, tackling a dangerous veterinary tranquilizer that amplifies the fentanyl crisis. Learn more here... - @citizenptnewsfl on Bluesky
• 🌈 If you're at Megaplex 21st - 23rd and need harm reduction supplies lemme know here or @mossposs on Telegram to coordinane 🌈 i'll have narcan, plan b, fent test strips, and condoms on hand. Free, no questions asked 💜 - @genderestranged on Bluesky

Opposition Views

• 🚫 BC’s 4 Pillars drug plan failed because it was never balanced. Funding skewed to harm reduction, while treatment, prevention, and enforcement lagged - @sanedelville on X

🏙 City Updates

• 🏙️ - [Las Vegas, NV] - August 11, 2026 - New approaches to substance misuse prevention take center stage at annual summit - southernnevadahealthdistrict.org
• 📧 - [Las Vegas, NV] - August 13, 2026 - Mayor Shelley Berkley To Attend First Graduation Of New Community Court Program Focused On Helping Unhoused Individuals Get Off The Street - view newsletter online for more info

📚 Academic Research (Click for more)

• 💊 Accessing treatment against drug use: the biopolitics of methadone across the Georgian–Abkhazian conflict divide - Territory Politics Governance - 2026-08-12 - doi.org
• 🚑 Occupational Differences in Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths: A Retrospective Descriptive Analysis - Substance Use & Misuse - 2026-08-14 - doi.org
• 💊 Pew report underscores benefits of take‐home methadone - Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly - 2026-08-17 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

• No hits in Law and Policy today.

💸 Funding (Click to expand)

Current

• 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
• 🔬 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

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