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📰 News Media

• 💉 [National] Fiji declares HIV emergency. One in 60 people now have the virus as drug crisis fuels outbreak - cnn.com
• 🏥 [National] Troubled Addiction Treatment Provider Aware Recovery Care Acquired by Renew Health + Recovery - bhbusiness.com
• ⚖️ [National] Campaign fighting proposition that would increase penalties for fentanyl crimes - kdvr.com
• 🤖 [National] Searching for a New Way to Search: How AI is Rewiring SUD Marketing - bhbusiness.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 🛟 We need more people in recovery, who have lived experience, involved in mental health recovery. Like addiction or eating disorder recovery. The old hands take the new hands. Not to lead or heal, but be a guiding... - @elemjay on Bluesky

Innovation

• 🏥 Fewer than 5 percent of jails and prisons offer all three medications for opioid use disorder — that gap is a policy choice. 60.7 percent of counties have no buprenorphine prescriber at all. Full episode:... - @YamiciaC on X
• 🚑 What if addiction treatment started in the ambulance? A new multisite study is testing EMS-initiated buprenorphine and whether patients connect to ongoing treatment afterward. An overdose response can be more than a... - @ActionForOD on X

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🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 💊 From policy to practice: overcoming barriers to harm reduction vending machine deployment - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-09-16 - doi.org
• 🍺 Indigenous Unruly Bodies: Managed Alcohol Programs, Cultural Adaptation, Care, and Control - Contemporary Drug Problems - 2026-09-16 - doi.org
• 🧪 Social-ecological factors shape preferences for and receipt of medications to treat opioid use disorder in the post-incarceration period - SSM - Mental Health - 2026-09-11 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

City Ordinances

• 🏙️ [Nashville, TN] Resolution RS2026-2283: ...Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Metropolitan Nashville Police Department... - nashville.legistar.com

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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

• 🗓️ Mobilize Recovery - RSVP for two free virtual advocacy and recovery events this week
• ✉️ National Council for Mental Wellbeing - Send a letter to your Representative supporting the 988 Implementation Act

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Featured Resource

DanceSafe Drug Checking Guide

DanceSafe explains at-home and laboratory drug checking, including what fentanyl test strips and reagent kits can and cannot tell you, with instructions and practical safety limitations.

Newsletter Improvements

September 13, 2026 (#5c603ea) - Testing navigation arrows. I love feedback and requests - [email protected]

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