Harm Reduction Briefing — Sep 05, 2026
NEWSLETTER UPDATE
Launching a twice-weekly version of the newsletter! Switch cadence here. Also releasing a search engine for looking through historical content!
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📰 News Media
- 🌿 [Bucks County, PA] Judge bars Bucks County smoke shop from selling minors kratom, which has no statewide age restriction - phillyvoice.com
- 🧪 [AZ] Cannabis testing lab kept breaking rules after major Arizona fine - azcentral.com
- 🧠 [International] New Zealand approves use of party drug MDMA to treat trauma - medicalxpress.com
- 🧠 [National] Three psychedelic drugs affect the brain differently, brain scans in rats suggest - medicalxpress.com
- 🎪 [National] To Find Honest Talk About Drugs, Go to a Music Festival - nytimes.com
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
Innovation
- 🩹 Wearable smart patch could deliver automatic aid during a fentanyl overdose - Virginia Tech News (link) via @GoogleNews - @DartmouthCTBH on X
- 🏥 Today, during National Recovery Month, we're proud to introduce Code Recover — a new educational resource helping Emergency Departments integrate Recovery Peer Support Specialists into opioid use disorder care.... - @MobilizeRecover on X
Opposition Views
🏙 City Updates
📚 Academic Research
- 💊 Knowledge, attitudes and practices among Australian community pharmacists towards naloxone and overdose prevention: a national cross-sectional study - International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy - 2026-09-05 - doi.org
- 🤖 Implementation of an opioid use disorder (OUD) machine-learning phenotype in real-time for the ADAPT clinical trial - PLOS Digital Health - 2026-09-03 - doi.org
- 🚑 Locations of emergency medical services attended non-fatal opioid-involved overdoses, 888 counties, USA, 2022–2024 - Injury Prevention - 2026-09-03 - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
- No hits in Law and Policy today.
💸 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
- 📣 Mobilize Recovery - Contact elected officials for recovery and overdose prevention policies
- 🚶 Shatterproof - Register for the 2026 Shatterproof Walk to End Addiction
- 💬 Mobilize Recovery - Join Ryan Hampton’s live Reddit AMA and ask questions now
Submit a Link
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Featured Resource
SafeSpot is a free, confidential, 24/7 overdose prevention hotline for people using drugs alone. A trained peer stays on the phone and can contact help if you become unresponsive. Call 1-800-972-0590.
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]