Featuring content from daily briefings generated August 21, 2026 through August 24, 2026.

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📰 News Media (Click for more)

• 🌿 [Albany, NY] Albany County set to ban kratom sales, distribution - wamc.org
• 🍃 [Miami, FL] Baby Boomers Are Smoking More Pot. Their Neighbors Are Fuming. - wsj.com
• 🧠 [National, International] NICOLAS LANGLITZ, MD, PHD: You have to find a space for these wild psychedelics in a rule governed world - drogriporter.hu
• 📉 [National] Why Getting High Has Only Gotten Cheaper - nytimes.com
• 💉 [National] As a US attorney, I see fentanyl's horrifying toll up close. Congress must act now - foxnews.com

🗣️ Social Pulse (Click for more)

Lived/Living Experience

• 🧠 ugh.... he's terrible because he's a eugenicist, sociopathic, hypocrite who wants us to believe that everyone who uses drugs he doesn't like (SSRIs, for example) should be sent to wellness farms but ppl using... - @maiasz on Bluesky

Innovation

• 🧠 @CMerandi @Breelee420 @ibdgirl76 — serious question. Between your networks, do we have the people and expertise to build a real patient-outcomes dataset? Not another collection of anecdotes. A structured cohort:... - @TeriCottone on X
• 📊 From Crisis Response to Metric-Driven Control: How Opioid Provisions Expanded Beyond Altruism, Constrained Patient Voice, Normalized Tools Against Grievances — and Correlate with Elevated Suicide Risk (link) - @Eadranai on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Seattle logic: Hand out free needles: No hep B shot required. No HIV/AIDS status asked. Just take ‘em and go. Pick the used ones out of the park so kids don’t step on them: “Produce your vaccination records in 48... - @JezebellePNW on X

🏙 City Updates

• 📧 - [San José, CA] - August 21, 2026 - Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention Newsletter - content.govdelivery.com
• 📧 - [Memphis, TN] - August 21, 2026 - Shelby County Health Department Community Care Fair at Greater Imani Church on Saturday, August 29th - newsletter - shelbytnhealth.com

📚 Academic Research (Click for more)

• 🗺️ Geospatial Analysis of Opioid-Related Outcomes Across Riverside County ZIP Codes and Associations With Social Determinants of Health - Cureus - 2026-08-22 - doi.org
• 💊 Policy Pathways for Addressing Opioid-Stimulant Polysubstance Use - Substance Use &amp Addiction Journal - 2026-08-19 - doi.org
• 💊 Prescribed alternative stimulants among people who use unregulated stimulants: Examining the association between maximum dose reached and medication discontinuation in the first 3 years of implementation in British Columbia, Canada - Addiction - 2026-08-20 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

City Ordinances

• 🏙️ [Cleveland, OH] Emergency Ordinance 944-2026: ...for and accept a grant from the Alcohol, Drug Addiction & Mental Health Services Board of Cuyahoga County... - cityofcleveland.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
• 💊 Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA FY 2026 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Site-Based Program - Deadline: Sep 24, 2026
• 💊 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

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