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📰 News Media

• 💉 [Philadelphia, PA] Prevention Point's syringe exchange services have contracted since Philly cut $1 million in city funding - phillyvoice.com
• 🟢 [Maine] Maine warns patients about contaminated "Deep Sea" cannabis concentrate - wmtw.com
• 🗑️ [CO] At-home drug disposal products can play an important role in keeping rural Coloradans safe - theconversation.com
• 🧠 [National] Co-occurring SUD, Autism Diagnoses Are Growing, But Resources Are Lacking - bhbusiness.com
• 💊 [National] “A Clear Watering Down”: Drug Transparency Bill Stripped of Critical Provisions Ahead of Senate Vote - propublica.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 Please to forgive minor correction, but there is no such ting as "former addict" there is temporarily clean, but addiction never truly goes away. - @bobwheeler on Bluesky

Innovation

• 💊 Rapid initiation of extended-release buprenorphine in community harm reduction settings is showing promise for people with severe opioid use disorder. Alberta’s recovery-oriented approach is about lowering barriers... - @RecovExcel on X
• 🤖 In 44% of fatal overdoses, someone was nearby. A CDC model finds bystander naloxone the most efficient prevention. #Naloxone Created with AI assistance. (link) - @AxionNeuro on X

Opposition Views

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🏙 City Updates

• 💊 - [Memphis, TN] - September 18, 2026 - Know Your Status Program Adds Overdose Prevention Supplies Delivered by Mail at No Cost - shelbytnhealth.com

📚 Academic Research

• 🏥 Healthcare first: delivering immediate, non-contingent, and coordinated services through the street medicine model - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-09-15 - doi.org
• 💉 Between hospice and harm reduction: mixed methods analysis of barriers to palliative care for people who inject drugs - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-09-18 - doi.org
• 🚭 Tobacco Harm Reduction & Smoking Cessation: A Guide for Community Health Workers - Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) - 2026-09-17 - 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

Future

• 💉 AIDS United - Harm Reduction Futures Fund - Harm Reduction Futures Fund (Round 17) - Direct service organizations: $10,000 to $25,000 for one year. Multi-program support organizations: $25,000 to $40,000 for one year. - Expected: Sep 25, 2026

📣 Activism

• 🗓️ Mobilize Recovery - RSVP for Federal Advocacy 101 virtual training
• 🪑 Faces & Voices of Recovery - Register for the 2026 Recovery Leadership Summit virtual event
• 📣 National Council for Mental Wellbeing - Send a message to your Representative supporting the 988 Implementation Act

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

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