Featuring content from daily briefings generated October 27, 2026 through November 2, 2026.

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📰 News Media (Click for more)

• 💰 [West Virginia] Commentary: Wasted opioid settlements are a new low in the West Virginia exploitation story • West Virginia Watch - westvirginiawatch.com
• ⚖️ [Dublin, Ireland] How to decriminalise drugs, and how not to: former US police chief shares lessons learned with Irish seminar - dublininquirer.com
• 💊 [Montana] One private equity–backed company owns every methadone clinic in Montana - fortune.com
• ⚠️ [National] Severe withdrawal cases point to growing medetomidine use - penninjuryscience.org
• 💊 [National] Utilization Management for Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Medicaid - macpac.gov

🗣️ Social Pulse (Click for more)

Lived/Living Experience

• 🧠 Nights like this I hate being sober. Wish I could drink and be normal but having the addict gene & being a former alcoholic, I have to abstain for my own health - @sleepymaoist on Bluesky

Innovation

• 🤖 One of the hardest problems with Scatty ( Planner for ADHD, ASD, DE) right now isn’t memory. It’s the model going quiet. The app is voice-first, live. When someone with ADHD / twice-exceptional needs to talk about... - @Ga_Vasques on X
• 🏨 Summary: This bill requires hotels to cooperate with harm reduction service providers to maintain opioid antidotes and supplies on-site and to train staff in their use, with hotels able to enter agreements with... - @congressbills on Bluesky

Opposition Views

• 🚫 As long as you can get your “harm reduction” paraphernalia. That is really all that matters. Enable them, and keep them addicted. Someone is making a lot of money for selling out their city. - @potterylover on X

🏙 City Updates

• 📧 - [Louisville, KY] - October 30, 2026 - Mayor Greenberg and LMPHW announce youth-driven “Louder Than Smoke” anti-vaping campaign - newsletter - view newsletter online for more info
• 📧 - [San Diego, CA] - October 29, 2026 - Urgent Drug Alert: Medetomidine in the San Diego County Drug Supply - newsletter - view newsletter online for more info

📚 Academic Research (Click for more)

• 🌍 Global Burden and Elimination Progress of Viral Hepatitis B and C Toward the 2030 WHO Targets: A Structured Review of Epidemiology, Inequities, and Service Delivery Gaps - Cureus - 2026-10-29 - doi.org
• 🩺 Harm Reduction Frameworks: Lessons for U.S. Opioid Policy - 2026-10-30 - doi.org
• 💊 Provider Experiences and Preferences for Integrating an Evidence‐Based Mobile Health Application in Methadone Maintenance Treatment: A Mixed‐Methods Study - Drug and Alcohol Review - 2026-10-29 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

City Ordinances

• 💉 [Columbus, OH] Ordinance 2715-2026: ...CARES Act (CDBG-CV) funds for the purpose of granting to a local non-profit providing harm reduction services. ($15,000.00) - columbus.legistar.com

💸 Funding (Click to expand)

Current

• Deadline Approaching · 🛠️ Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA FY 2026 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (COSSUP) Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) - Deadline: Nov 2, 2026
• Deadline Approaching · 🧒 Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention - OJJDP FY 2026 Mentoring for Youth Impacted by Opioids and Other Substance Use - Deadline: Nov 16, 2026
• Deadline Approaching · 🧒 Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention - OJJDP FY 2026 Opioid Affected Youth Initiative - Deadline: Nov 16, 2026
• 🔬 National Institutes of Health - HEAL Initiative: Integrative Management of Chronic Pain and OUD for Whole Recovery (IMPOWR): Research Centers (RM1 Clinical Trial Required) - Deadline: Jan 26, 2027

Future

• NEW · 💛 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Centering Compassion to Create Community and Government Systems that Promote Wellbeing for All - Expected: Dec 9, 2026
• NEW · 🧠 Elevance Health Foundation - Behavioral Health - Grant ranges are open; funding levels are determined based on several factors, including the need and the plan presented. Grants generally last one to three years. - Expected: Jan 1, 2027

📣 Activism (Click for more)

• 📅 Shatterproof - Register for Shatterproof’s November 12 Webinar on Kratom Policy and Treatment
• 📣 National Alliance to End Homelessness - Urge Your Representative to Sign the Housing and Homelessness Programs Letter

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