Harm Reduction Briefing — Sep 04, 2026
NEWSLETTER UPDATE
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📰 News Media
- 🍃 [Colorado] Regulators Knew This Marijuana Product Was Harming People. It Stayed on Shelves for More Than a Year. - propublica.org
- 🌿 [Michigan] North Dakota shows Michigan the way on fighting kratom | Opinion - detroitnews.com
- ⚖️ [International] SR-17018 and the DEA’s ‘Scorched-Earth Campaign’ Against Novel Opioids - talkingdrugs.org
- 🤰 [Oregon] A lifeline for Oregon mothers battling addiction is going away - oregonlive.com
- 💊 [Antioch, CA] Antioch expands access to opioid treatment and recovery services - mercurynews.com
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
Innovation
- 💉 This means that harm reduction orgs will be able to easily obtain RiVive by ordering through the Philadelphia Dept. of Health. For us at HRT, this is a huge milestone in making Compassionate Overdose Response®️... - @hrtherapeutics on Bluesky
- 📟 Wearable Patch Could Deliver Automatic Aid During a Fentanyl Overdose - @KT07500539 on X
Opposition Views
🏙 City Updates
- No recent City Updates found.
📚 Academic Research
- 🧑 Preliminary findings from a formative evaluation of the Indigenous peer support specialist train-the-trainer manual: a culturally grounded approach to recovery in American Indian and Alaska Native communities - Frontiers in Public Health - 2026-09-03 - doi.org
- 🧑 Transforming community health advocates into peer interventionists: a binational harm reduction model - Frontiers in Public Health - 2026-09-04 - doi.org
- 🤝 Community Program Participation Experience of Peer Recovery Coaches for Substance Use Disorders Based on a Caring Perspective: A Qualitative Study - Nursing Open - 2026-09-01 - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
Federal Agencies
City Ordinances
💸 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
- 🔬 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
📣 Activism
- 🚶 Shatterproof - Register for the 2026 Shatterproof Walk to End Addiction
- 💬 Mobilize Recovery - Join Ryan Hampton’s live Reddit AMA and ask a question now
- 📣 Mobilize Recovery - Contact elected officials for recovery and overdose prevention policies
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Newsletter Improvements
August 30, 2026 (#3217ac5) - Improving diagnostics. Adding code to better filter out duplicate news in the Social Media innovation section--hopefully feels fresher. I love feedback and requests - [email protected]