Featuring content from daily briefings generated October 16, 2026 through October 19, 2026.

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📰 News Media (Click for more)

• 💊 [New York City, NY] FIT requiring public safety supervisors carry Narcan following overdose death of Annabel Richter - nydailynews.com
• 🌿 [Oklahoma] Mazzei, Munson walk fine line on Oklahoma's marijuana freefall - oklahoman.com
• 🌿 [Tennessee] On the Issues: Will TN's next governor legalize marijuana? - tennessean.com
• 🏙️ [Oshawa, Ontario] Oshawa's growing homeless and addiction crisis takes centre stage in mayoral race - ca.news.yahoo.com
• ⚠️ [National] Cychlorphine Is a New Opioid Hidden in Counterfeit Pills - psychologytoday.com

🗣️ Social Pulse (Click for more)

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 It is alarming how much it is being treated like a drug, the levels of addiction are scary. Not even saying that with judgement but as a former alcoholic and knowing my own battles with addiction, it comes off the same. - @glimmergremlin on Bluesky

Innovation

• 💉 Great news for Fiji: The passing of the HIV/AIDS (Amendment) Bill 2026 which enables harm reduction programs, especially needle and syringe distribution, to strengthen Fiji’s public-health response to HIV/AIDS 💉... - @glepha on Bluesky
• 🧪 Victoria—Permanent Pill Testing Victoria’s fixed-site service tested >5,000 samples in its first year, welcomed >3,000 visitors & held >2,500 harm-reduction conversations. One in three had their first conversation... - @hempedification on Bluesky

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Pete Fry has just won the Vancouver Mayoral race. Lets see how terrible the city gets under his "Harm-reduction" expansion approach. Its going to be the same thing as before Ken Sim. More open air drug use, more... - @CanadaFreedom0 on X

🏙 City Updates

• 📧 - [San Jose, CA] - October 16, 2026 - Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention Newsletter - view newsletter online for more info

📚 Academic Research (Click for more)

• 💊 Patient-Reported Barriers to Ongoing Engagement in Office-Based Buprenorphine Treatment in a Semi-rural Missouri Clinic: A Cross-Sectional Survey - Cureus - 2026-10-13 - doi.org
• 🏥 Primary healthcare providers’ attitudes and associated factors toward working with people who use substances in Rwanda - BMC Family Practice - 2026-10-13 - doi.org
• 💊 Trends in receipt of methadone vs. buprenorphine by race/ethnicity before and after COVID-19 (2018–2022): a Veterans Health Administration study - Addiction Science & Clinical Practice - 2026-10-16 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

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💸 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 (Click for more)

• 📣 National Alliance to End Homelessness - Sign Up for State Advocacy in the November 18 Keep People Home Day
• 📣 Housing Not Handcuffs Campaign - Bring Housing Not Handcuffs Signs to a No Kings Day Rally

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