Featuring content from daily briefings generated September 8, 2026 through September 10, 2026.

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📰 News Media (Click for more)

• 🛟 [National] Adding some key considerations to simple DSM-5-TR criteria counts - recoveryreview.blog
• 🏛️ [Seattle, Washington] Drugs and Disorder, by the Numbers - wsj.com
• 🌿 [National, MA] Mass. cannabis sector hits $10 billion in sales ahead of repeal vote - wbur.org
• 🏥 [National] When Treatment Centers Become Assembly Lines - recoveryreview.blog
• 🌿 [National, Minnesota] 7-OH is a popular and dangerous drug. Is a ban the answer? - minnpost.com

🗣️ Social Pulse (Click for more)

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 Damn I use to be homeless on the streets of Seattle addicted to fentanyl and meth and it never got this bad. Like there’d be big groups of us getting high but not 30 of us all folded over that’s wild. so grateful... - @cokelore89 on X

Innovation

• 🧪 Overdose Prevention Tools: • Carry Naloxone • Test your dope - Fentanyl and Xylazine Test Strips • Look for the signs! • Using alone … call the “Never Use Alone” hotline (877) 696-1996 Message me if need more... - @Dancruz__16 on X
• 🤖 We helped a B2C app blow up on ChatGPT rankings. - $1,500/day in revenue - 910K impressions, from zero - All in 6 months, only using LLM SEO it’s an addiction recovery app with over a million users Their problem:... - @denohawari on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Forget that guy. Think of all the people you see every day that can't take care of themselves due to mental illness/addiction. In the Bay Area "harm reduction" orgs pass out supplies so people can do fentanyl, which... - @jazzscribe on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research (Click for more)

• 🚰 Multiyear Wastewater Monitoring of High-Risk Substances Surrounding an Annual Electronic Dance Music Festival, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2023-2025: Surveillance Study - JMIR Public Health and Surveillance - 2026-09-08 - doi.org
• 💊 Pharmacist-Led Initiative to Increase Naloxone Prescribing for Patients on High-Dose Opioids in a General Internal Medicine Clinic - The Lahey Journal - 2026-09-10 - doi.org
• 💉 Toxicological and Clinical Characteristics of Fatal Cases in the Emerging Drugs Network of Australia—Victoria ( EDNAV ) Clinical Registry 2020–2025 - Emergency Medicine Australasia - 2026-09-09 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

City Ordinances

• 🏙️ [Jacksonville, FL] Ordinance 2026-0563-E: ...Normandy Blvd, Btwn Lenox Ave & Vincent St - Tobacco Galore, Inc. - Req an Estab or Facility... - jaxcityc.legistar.com

💸 Funding (Click to expand)

Current

• Deadline Approaching · 💊 Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA FY 2026 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Site-Based Program - Deadline: Sep 24, 2026
• Deadline Approaching · 🔬 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
• 🧠 Elevance Health Foundation - Behavioral Health (Grant Applications) - Grant ranges are open; funding levels determined based on factors including need and the plan presented. Generally, grants last from one to three years. - Deadline: Jan 31, 2027

Future

• 🤝 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Expected: TBA

📣 Activism

• 🚶 Shatterproof - Register for the Boston Shatterproof Walk to End Addiction
• 💙 Shatterproof - Take the Teal Heart Pledge to reduce addiction stigma

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