Featuring content from daily briefings generated August 18, 2026 through August 20, 2026.

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📰 News Media (Click for more)

• 🌿 [National] As More Americans Turn to Cannabis, Problem Use Is Increasing - nytimes.com
• 🧪 [National, International] How Drug Checking Services Around the World Navigate Prohibition - talkingdrugs.org
• 💊 [Aurora, Illinois] Kane County Health Department to host training on medication that reverses opioid overdoses - chicagotribune.com
• 🧪 [Naperville, IL] Naperville council mulls ban on retail sale of kratom products - chicagotribune.com
• 🤝 [National] Revisiting William White – Sponsor, Recovery Coach, Addiction Counselor: - recoveryreview.blog

🗣️ Social Pulse (Click for more)

Lived/Living Experience

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Innovation

• 🧑 Our work was highlighted in the Harm Reduction Journal! We facilitated working groups into young sex workers who use drugs, and young people who use opioids in participatory and collaborative processes. You can read... - @YouthRISE on X
• 🤖 “OpioidCM’s model works by analyzing de-identified pharmacy and health-plan claims for patterns it considers signs of “rising risk,” such as frequent opioid refills, increasing doses, overlapping prescriptions,... - @life_is_art___ on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 1 in 3 homeless people use hard drugs. The response from unaccountable agencies was a policy called "harm reduction." It aims to reduce the consequences of drug use rather than change it. A patient REFUSES treatment... - @InstituteCicero on X

🏙 City Updates

• No recent City Updates found.

📚 Academic Research (Click for more)

• 💉 A county-wide public health intervention to increase low-barrier, community-based naloxone access: Protocol for an implementation science evaluation (Preprint) - 2026-08-19 - doi.org
• 🚬 Digital twin frameworks for smoking and nicotine dependence: toward predictive and personalised smoking cessation - Egyptian Journal of Bronchology - 2026-08-14 - doi.org
• 💉 Justice Community Overdose Innovation Network (JCOIN) 1.0: Brixadi Versus Extended-Release Naltrexone Hub, Client Data, Maryland, 2020-2024 - ICPSR Data Holdings - 2026-08-18 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

Federal Agencies

• ⚖️ [United States] [Comment Request] Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations - federalregister.gov

State Laws

• 💊 [Alaska] ...practice agreements for pharmacists; relating to the prescription of opioid overdose drugs; relating to the prescription and administration of... - openstates.org

City Ordinances

• 🏠 [Nashville, TN] Resolution RS2026-2195: ...Metropolitan Government, acting by and through the Office of Homeless Services, as the local HUD Continuum of Care... - nashville.legistar.com

💸 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
• NEW · 💊 Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA FY 2026 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Site-Based Program - Deadline: Sep 24, 2026
• NEW · 💊 Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA FY 2026 Second Chance Act Family-Based Substance Use Disorder Treatment Program - Deadline: Sep 24, 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

Future

• 🤝 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Expected: TBA

📣 Activism

• 📝 Drug Policy Alliance - Take the 2026 National Drug Policy Reform Survey

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