Featuring content from daily briefings generated July 28, 2026 through July 30, 2026.

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📰 News Media (Click for more)

• 💊 [National, KY] Andy Beshear Set Out to Make Drug Treatment Widely Available in Kentucky. Fraud and Abuse Followed. - propublica.org
• 🏛️ [Los Angeles, CA] L.A. County supervisors approve ballot measure to restore funds for jail alternatives - latimes.com
• 💊 [National, MD] Maryland to host town halls to discuss opioid settlement fund - baltimoresun.com
• 🚑 [National, MA] Study demonstrates the positive impact of expanding mobile addiction clinics - medicalxpress.com
• 🧠 [National, International] The Representation Crisis: Who is the Psychedelic Revolution Really For? - talkingdrugs.org

🗣️ Social Pulse (Click for more)

Lived/Living Experience

• 🛟 As one of my doctors told me when I started my recovery journey, "There's something about how abuse affects children that often leads to addiction and incarceration down the road." I had been through both and I do... - @buckbritt on Bluesky

Innovation

• 💻 Technology Platform (Peer PLUS) Supporting the Work of Peer Recovery Coaches and the Communication Needs of Individuals in Recovery From Substance Use Disorder: Protocol for an R21 Development and Usability Trial. (link) - @digitalhealthev on X
• 🧪 Toronto’s Drug Checking Services continues to see contamination & unpredictability in the unregulated opioid supply. Free training + resources on identifying & responding to overdoses & administering naloxone are... - @TOPublicHealth on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Supervised consumption sites gave little value. "The best available evidence indicates that supervised consumption sites do little to nothing to reduce drug overdose deaths in their surrounding communities." (link) - @treatment_first on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research (Click for more)

• 🧠 An Educational Program for Residential Staff to Enhance Confidence in Supporting Substance Use Prevention and Reduction Among Foster Youth - The Human Occupation & Wellbeing Journal - 2026-07-29 - doi.org
• 🩹 Operationalizing recipient-centeredness: three facets of values-driven care in syringe services programs - Implementation Science Communications - 2026-07-28 - doi.org
• 💊 Primer on revised methadone regulations - Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly - 2026-07-27 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

• No hits in Law and Policy today.

💸 Funding (Click to expand)

Current

• 🔬 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
• 🔬 National Institutes of Health - Avant Garde/Avenir Awards for Investigators Conducting High Risk/High Reward Research on HIV and Substance Use (or Substance Use Disorders) (DP1 Clinical Trial Optional) - Deadline: Sep 25, 2028

📣 Activism

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