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📰 News Media

• 🏛️ [Seattle, Washington] Drugs and Disorder, by the Numbers - wsj.com
• 🌿 [MA] Mass. cannabis sector hits $10 billion in sales ahead of repeal vote - wbur.org
• 🏥 [National] When Treatment Centers Become Assembly Lines - recoveryreview.blog
• 🛟 [National] Adding some key considerations to simple DSM-5-TR criteria counts - recoveryreview.blog

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

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Innovation

• 🧪 Overdose Prevention Tools: • Carry Naloxone • Test your dope - Fentanyl and Xylazine Test Strips • Look for the signs! • Using alone … call the “Never Use Alone” hotline (877) 696-1996 Message me if need more... - @Dancruz__16 on X
• 🤖 We helped a B2C app blow up on ChatGPT rankings. - $1,500/day in revenue - 910K impressions, from zero - All in 6 months, only using LLM SEO it’s an addiction recovery app with over a million users Their problem:... - @denohawari on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Forget that guy. Think of all the people you see every day that can't take care of themselves due to mental illness/addiction. In the Bay Area "harm reduction" orgs pass out supplies so people can do fentanyl, which... - @jazzscribe on X

🏙 City Updates

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

📚 Academic Research

• 💉 Toxicological and Clinical Characteristics of Fatal Cases in the Emerging Drugs Network of Australia—Victoria ( EDNAV ) Clinical Registry 2020–2025 - Emergency Medicine Australasia - 2026-09-09 - doi.org
• 🚰 Multiyear Wastewater Monitoring of High-Risk Substances Surrounding an Annual Electronic Dance Music Festival, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2023-2025: Surveillance Study - JMIR Public Health and Surveillance - 2026-09-08 - doi.org
• 💊 Pharmacist-Led Initiative to Increase Naloxone Prescribing for Patients on High-Dose Opioids in a General Internal Medicine Clinic - The Lahey Journal - 2026-09-10 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

City Ordinances

• 🏙️ [Jacksonville, FL] Ordinance 2026-0563-E: ...Normandy Blvd, Btwn Lenox Ave & Vincent St - Tobacco Galore, Inc. - Req an Estab or Facility... - jaxcityc.legistar.com

💸 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
• 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

📣 Activism

• 🎓 Faces & Voices of Recovery - Register for free virtual training on peer supervision and overdose prevention
• 🚶 Shatterproof - Register for the Boston Walk to End Addiction
• 🚶 Shatterproof - Register for the Boston Shatterproof 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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