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📰 News Media

• 💊 [Greenville, South Carolina] Will Hayden Panettiere's death uncover a supplier like Matthew Perry's 'Ketamine Queen'? - latimes.com
• 🌿 [Delaware] Analysis identifies sharply different health risks among medicinal, recreational and dual cannabis users - medicalxpress.com
• 🌿 [WI] Where Tom Tiffany, David Crowley stand on marijuana legalization, hemp - jsonline.com
• 🧠 [International] Psychedelics: Saving Lives and Transforming Health Care – Interview with Tomáš Páleníček, MD, PhD - drogriporter.hu
• 🗳️ [New York] New York’s nicotine pouch tax gets the math — and the policy — wrong - nydailynews.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💊 I ask this as a former drug addict who only quit out of necessity; the reasons why I used the drug in the first place haven't gone away. Addiction is far more complex than simply getting through withdrawal. Some... - @pyslexicdharmacist on Bluesky

Innovation

• 🧮 Run a simulation through all this data through every town, not every town but every major city that would’ve been affected by any of these industries closing and leaving, and then run a simultaneous simulation for... - @KsiZegulite on X
• 🗣️ “Building an Overdose Spike Response Plan” helps teams use ODMAP and communication strategies to strengthen partnerships with public health and safety agencies. Explore the free webinar here: - @SIM_MONTANA on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 First thing would be to get rid of the "harm reduction" support. It does the exact opposite. That shit is just plain evil. Addicts need real support like rehab, support groups, resources to help them get & stay clean. - @Zeebee17722471 on X

🏙 City Updates

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

📚 Academic Research

• 💉 From custody to abandonment: Conceptualising Aboriginal people's drug treatment discontinuation after release - International Journal of Drug Policy - 2026-09-10 - doi.org
• 💊 Assessment of methadone maintenance therapy implementation and perceived barriers to treatment participation - Medicine - 2026-09-11 - doi.org
• 💊 Timing of Initiation of Methadone Take-Home Dosing - JAMA Internal Medicine - 2026-09-08 - 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
• 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

• 📣 Housing Works - Contact Congress to support Housing Works advocacy and harm reduction
• 🚶 Shatterproof - Register for the Boston Walk to End Addiction in Boston
• 🚶 Shatterproof - Register for the Boston Shatterproof Walk to End Addiction

Submit a Link

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Featured Resource

Philadelphia Overdose Canvassing Report

See how Philadelphia employs trusted messengers, targeted outreach, supply kits, and same-day referrals to bring overdose prevention door to door.

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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