Harm Reduction Briefing — Sep 07, 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 Also releasing a search engine for looking through historical content!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
- 📚 [New Hampshire] Literature program gets grant to support recovery services and combat opioid epidemic - nhpr.org
- 🌿 [Boston, MA] Curaleaf, $2.6 billion cannabis company, opens store in downtown Boston, over social equity protests - bostonglobe.com
- 🧑 [National] In recovery, helping helps the helper IF… - recoveryreview.blog
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
- No posts found today.
Innovation
- 🧪 Membertou Community FB page: Community Notice – Please Be Aware Membertou Health Centre has issued a Community Drug Alert following a report that cannabis used in Membertou tested positive for fentanyl. Community... - @MBSNewsMaritime on X
- 🚨 NEW emerging illicit drug threat. It’s called Medetomidine and it’s being found in Fentanyl supplies. If there’s interest in these types of alerts, I’ll share them more often‼️ - @DuchessOfMeme on X
Opposition Views
🏙 City Updates
- No recent City Updates found.
📚 Academic Research
- 🧪 Advancing Spectroscopy‐Based Drug Checking Training: A Proof‐of‐Concept Study for the Use of Concordance Analysis - Drug and Alcohol Review - 2026-09-01 - doi.org
- 💉 Opioid Overdose Risk and Recovery Barriers: A Mixed Methods Study of Perspectives From a Community - Public Health Reports® - 2026-09-06 - doi.org
- 💊 Community-Level Determinants of Buprenorphine Provider Availability: A ZCTA-Level (Zip Code Tabulation Area) Analysis - Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports - 2026-09-01 - 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
- 🗓️ Faces & Voices of Recovery - Register for free virtual training on peer supervision and overdose prevention
- 🖥️ Shatterproof - Register for Shatterproof webinar on kratom policy and youth protection
- 📣 Housing Works - Contact Congress to support Housing Works advocacy and harm reduction
Submit a Link
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Featured Resource
Harm Reduction Vending Machine Readiness Toolkit
This Johns Hopkins decision-making toolkit helps public health agencies, community organizations, and advocates assess readiness, identify gaps, and plan a harm reduction vending-machine program.
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]