Featuring content from daily briefings generated October 13, 2026 through October 15, 2026.

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📰 News Media (Click for more)

• ⚠️ [Austin, TX] Austin police warn about dangerous, unregulated opioid products sold at smoke shops - yahoo.com
• ⚖️ [Pennsylvania] High court rejects challenge to how Pa. treats users accused of supplying drugs in fatal overdoses - ca.news.yahoo.com
• ⚖️ Human Rights and Harm Reduction 2.0: Beyond HIV and the Evidentiary Double Standard in Drug Policy - hhrjournal.org
• 🧪 [National] NIST Study Shows How the Toxic Substances Mixed Into Fentanyl Vary Across the U.S. and Change Over Time - nist.gov
• 💊 [Louisiana] Attorney General Jeff Landry announces plan to combat opioid abuse - wbrz.com

🗣️ Social Pulse (Click for more)

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 I’m a former heroin addict whose addiction landed me dead several times and in prison once. And I give everyone permission to recognize that people who criticize this analogy are concern trolling and can be ignored - @talesfrompurgatory on Bluesky

Innovation

• 📱 For adults initiating #Buprenorphine during hospitalization, a patient navigation and #mHealth incentive intervention was feasible to deliver and highly rated, with similar outpatient linkage as usual care in this... - @JAMANetworkOpen on X
• 🧪 The Transparency Triple Check: 1️⃣ Screen with strips (fentanyl, xylazine, nitazene) 2️⃣ Use multiple reagents to see if your sample reacts as expected 3️⃣ Compare with lab-verified videos in the Transparency Harm... - @BunkPolice on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 These figures are from Dr. Kevin Sabet’s presentation that clearly showed the focus on only one pillar Harm Reduction, not the other three: treatment, prevention or enforcement, that voters were promised years ago. - @homesnotbanks on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research (Click for more)

• 📱 Patient Navigation Plus mHealth Incentives for Linkage to OUD Care for Adults Who Also Use Methamphetamines - JAMA Network Open - 2026-10-13 - doi.org
• 🚑 Responding to the Fentanyl Overdose Crisis With a Tri-Government Incident Command Structure in Portland, Oregon, 2024. - PubMed - 2026-10-13 - doi.org
• 🌍 Substance use, related harms and public health responses in Colombia: A national profile - Addiction - 2026-10-13 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

City Ordinances

• 💊 [Jacksonville, FL] Resolution 2026-0730-A: ...County Resident, as a Member of the Opioid & Substance Use Disorder Grants Committee, as a Healthcare Professional... - jaxcityc.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
• 🧒 Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention - OJJDP FY 2026 Mentoring for Youth Impacted by Opioids and Other Substance Use - Deadline: Nov 16, 2026
• 🧒 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

📣 Activism

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