Featuring content from daily briefings generated August 25, 2026 through August 27, 2026.

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📰 News Media (Click for more)

• 💉 [National, Louisiana] A state gave sheriffs 20% of its opioid settlement cash. We followed the money - statnews.com
• 🏥 [Riverside, CA] Family awarded millions for dad's fatal overdose in notoriously deadly SoCal jail system - latimes.com
• 🌿 [National, MA] Retailers sue to halt Mass. kratom ban days before it takes effect - wbur.org
• 🫧 [Sonoma County, CA] Sonoma County moves to restrict nitrous oxide sales, citing troubling public health trend - mercurynews.com
• 🌿 [National, Michigan] What's the latest on 7-OH and kratom availability and addiction care? - medicalxpress.com

🗣️ Social Pulse (Click for more)

Lived/Living Experience

• 🧠 I struggled with kicking a meth habit for 20 years and have been successful now for 6 years. Watching a loved one struggle with fentanyl is a whole separate beast. It’s not even a drug …it’s sorcery. And the system... - @NunyaBidnass0_o on X

Innovation

• 💊 I-BEACON focuses on helping providers prescribe and manage buprenorphine, a medication used to treat opioid use disorder (link) - @iowasnewsnow on X
• 🚑 Opioid crisis evolves with fentanyl & sedatives rising. Vermont’s PREVENT pilot empowers EMS to deliver buprenorphine prehospital, revolutionizing acute OUD care. Are you ready to lead this change? Read more: (link)... - @jemsconnect on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 We have a drug epidemic and the collateral damage is unacceptable. Soft on crime and safe consumption sites have failed miserably. Forced detox far away from city centers, the regular piss tests after release, if... - @Guy_Maclin on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research (Click for more)

• 🚐 How mobile units are shaping opioid treatment experiences: Insights from patients of mobile and traditional opioid treatment programs - Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment - 2026-08-24 - doi.org
• 🧪 Substance use treatment utilization and unmet demand among recently incarcerated syringe services program participants in Washington state - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-08-27 - doi.org
• 🩹 Supervised consumption service use and high-frequency public injecting among people who inject drugs in Toronto: A cross-sectional analysis (2018–2020) - International Journal of Drug Policy - 2026-08-24 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy (Click for more)

Federal Agencies

• 🧪 [United States] [Final Rule] Schedules of Controlled Substances: Placement of Cipepofol in Schedule IV - federalregister.gov
• [🧪 [United States] ...Final Rule] Schedules of Controlled Substances: Temporary Placement of 5,6-Dichloro Brorphine, 5,6-Dichloro Desmethylchlorphine, N-Propionitrile... - federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/27/2026-17531/schedules-of-controlled-substances-temporary-placement-of-56-dichloro-brorphine-56-dichloro)

City Ordinances

• 💊 [Jacksonville, FL] Resolution 2026-0594-A: ...County Resident, as a Member of the Opioid & Substance Use Disorder Grants Committee, as a Healthcare Professional... - jaxcityc.legistar.com
• 💊 [Jacksonville, FL] Resolution 2026-0608-A: ...County Resident, as a Member of the Opioid & Substance Use Disorder Grants Committee, as a Peer Specialist... - jaxcityc.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

• 🫶 Mobilize Recovery - Register to volunteer for Narcan at Night in Las Vegas
• 🗓️ Faces & Voices of Recovery - Register for the 25th Anniversary Recovery Leadership Summit

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