Featuring content from daily briefings generated September 25, 2026 through September 28, 2026.

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📰 News Media (Click for more)

• 🌿 [National, New York] After the Drug Laws - nytimes.com
• 🌿 [National, CO] Contaminated marijuana vapes sold at over 400 Colorado stores, health officials warn - denverpost.com
• 💊 [National] States Are Increasing Access to Methadone Clinics - pew.org
• 🏠 [National] The need for recovery capital - reginalabelle.substack.com
• 🧪 [Chicago, Illinois] With potential federal 7-OH ban looming, Illinois providers prepare for influx of patients seeking treatment - chicagotribune.com

🗣️ Social Pulse (Click for more)

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 i'm a former alcoholic, and this was approved for my heart and is better for me then 2 handles of gin a week is how the cardiologists see it. I do exclusively green mang-da. - @redpandachris on Bluesky

Innovation

• 🚐 A mobile wellness outreach van launched in Brooklyn to deliver recovery support, substance use education, Narcan training, harm reduction, and referrals directly to overdose-affected neighborhoods. - @portlandbriefly on Bluesky
• 🧪 Cincinnati is placing free naloxone and fentanyl test strips at 24 locations where overdoses happen most often. Researchers will compare those sites with 12 other hotspots to see whether bringing supplies directly... - @BunkPolice on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Yes, absolutely. Remove SIS and free drug supply and enforce treatment, detox, rehab centers, fully equipped and staffed with doctors, nurses clinicians, educators, and temporary housing with the promise of... - @jboorne1 on X

🏙 City Updates

• 🏙️ - [Boston, MA] - September 25, 2026 - Boston Celebrates 40 Years of Workforce Development Programs Supporting Residents Experiencing Homelessness - boston.gov

📚 Academic Research (Click for more)

• 💉 Characteristics of certified community behavioral health clinics that offer long-acting injectable medications for opioid use disorders - BMC Health Services Research - 2026-09-25 - doi.org
• 💉 Lessons Learned From Implementation of a Jail-Based Naloxone Vending Machine - Journal of Correctional Health Care - 2026-09-26 - doi.org
• 🚑 Meeting people where they are, whenever they are here: the implementation of harm reduction programs in two U.S. emergency departments - International Journal of Emergency Medicine - 2026-09-25 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

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💸 Funding (Click to expand)

Current

• 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
• Deadline Approaching · 🔬 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
• 🛠️ Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA FY 2026 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (COSSUP) Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) - Deadline: Nov 2, 2026
• 🔬 National Institutes of Health - Exploratory Clinical Neuroscience Research on Substance Use Disorders (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Optional) - Deadline: Jun 16, 2028

📣 Activism

• 📝 National Harm Reduction Coalition - Register for NHRC Lighthouse Centering Care Conference in New York
• 🗓️ National Harm Reduction Coalition - Register for NHRC’s Centering Care Conference in New York City

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