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📰 News Media

• 💊 [National] Undermining recovery new samhsa requirements threaten opioid use disorder treatment and - healthaffairs.org
• 🧡 [Boston, MA] Inside the lifeline for trafficked women at Mass. and Cass - bostonglobe.com
• ⚠️ [upstate New York, NY] Four NY kids killed in grandma, mom’s murder-suicide were poisoned with allergy meds, kratom: report - nypost.com
• 🚑 [Pontiac, MI] Oakland sheriff's crisis unit gets lifeline after facing uncertainty - detroitnews.com
• 🛟 [Baltimore, Maryland] Older Black adults face disproportionate overdose risk despite statewide decline - afro.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 The three are obviously all monsters, surely though there are many many better reasons to mock and/or attack Hesgeth and RFK jr than their history of addiction? As a former heroin addict obviously I'm biased and i... - @jazhowe1968 on Bluesky

Innovation

• 🤖 Opioid overdose detection and reversal with closed-loop systems - @natrevbioeng on X
• 📝 If you use drugs and want to help with harm reduction, but don’t know where to start, write trip reports. Your experience is valuable data, and these reports can help people. - @aanu_wtf on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 We have a harm reduction facility in Hollywood that many likely don't know about, at 900 N. Western Ave theres often open drug use nearby. @CD13LosAngeles - @keith_johnson on X

🏙 City Updates

• 📧 - [San José, CA] - September 7, 2026 - A Message from Mayor Matt - view newsletter online for more info

📚 Academic Research

• 💊 Novel pharmacotherapies for opioid use disorder and opioid withdrawal - Frontiers in Psychiatry - 2026-09-03 - doi.org
• 🌿 “Cannabis Green Wave” versus “Nicotine Freeze”: the regulatory paradox of cannabis liberalization and nicotine prohibition - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-09-07 - doi.org
• 🚨 Evaluating analytically confirmed detections of illicit drugs and novel psychoactive substances in the emergency department and how the findings could contribute to the development of an early warning system. - UWA Profiles and Research Repository (UWA) - 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

• 🎓 Faces & Voices of Recovery - Register for free virtual training on peer supervision September 10
• 🖥️ Shatterproof - Register for Shatterproof webinar on kratom policy and youth protection
• 🚶 Shatterproof - Register for the Boston Walk to End Addiction

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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]

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