Featuring content from daily briefings generated September 15, 2026 through September 17, 2026.

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📰 News Media (Click for more)

• ⚖️ [National] Campaign fighting proposition that would increase penalties for fentanyl crimes - kdvr.com
• 💉 [National] Fiji declares HIV emergency. One in 60 people now have the virus as drug crisis fuels outbreak - cnn.com
• 🤖 [National] Searching for a New Way to Search: How AI is Rewiring SUD Marketing - bhbusiness.com
• 🏥 [National] Troubled Addiction Treatment Provider Aware Recovery Care Acquired by Renew Health + Recovery - bhbusiness.com
• 👨 [National] Children Deserve Recovery Too - recoveryreview.blog

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 🛟 We need more people in recovery, who have lived experience, involved in mental health recovery. Like addiction or eating disorder recovery. The old hands take the new hands. Not to lead or heal, but be a guiding... - @elemjay on Bluesky

Innovation

• 🏥 Fewer than 5 percent of jails and prisons offer all three medications for opioid use disorder — that gap is a policy choice. 60.7 percent of counties have no buprenorphine prescriber at all. Full episode:... - @YamiciaC on X
• 🚑 What if addiction treatment started in the ambulance? A new multisite study is testing EMS-initiated buprenorphine and whether patients connect to ongoing treatment afterward. An overdose response can be more than a... - @ActionForOD on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Agreed, but there is a wide gap between “round them up” and making it extremely easy to be a homeless drug addict (harm reduction, housing first etc). It should be extremely easy to get into treatment, not to... - @jorktank on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research (Click for more)

• 💊 From policy to practice: overcoming barriers to harm reduction vending machine deployment - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-09-16 - doi.org
• 🍺 Indigenous Unruly Bodies: Managed Alcohol Programs, Cultural Adaptation, Care, and Control - Contemporary Drug Problems - 2026-09-16 - doi.org
• 🧪 Social-ecological factors shape preferences for and receipt of medications to treat opioid use disorder in the post-incarceration period - SSM - Mental Health - 2026-09-11 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

City Ordinances

• 🏙️ [Nashville, TN] Resolution RS2026-2283: ...Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Metropolitan Nashville Police Department... - nashville.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 - Exploratory Clinical Neuroscience Research on Substance Use Disorders (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Optional) - Deadline: Jun 16, 2028
• 🔬 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

📣 Activism

• ✉️ National Council for Mental Wellbeing - Send a letter to your Representative supporting the 988 Implementation Act
• 🗓️ Mobilize Recovery - RSVP for two free virtual advocacy and recovery events this week

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