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📰 News Media

• 🏥 [National] Access to this page has been denied - thehill.com
• 🏥 [Scotland] Mission Accomplished? Rehab in Scotland, Five Years On - recoveryreview.blog
• 🍄 [Ann Arbor, MI] Dream or hallucination? Advocates want Michigan to legalize psychedelic drugs - detroitnews.com
• 🌿 [National] Addiction clinics see rising cases of kratom and 7-OH withdrawal - statnews.com
• 💉 [International] It’s Time for Harm Reduction to Focus on New Initiates to Injecting Drug Use - talkingdrugs.org

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 🛟 Cally, I agree with you on one thing: harm reduction shouldn’t be the finish line, and I know it isn't. I spent decades addicted to drugs. Naloxone saved my life six times. My last two overdoses happened at a... - @guyfelicella on X

Innovation

• 🧪 If you ever find a baggie like this: -Cocaine smells like gasoline/herbs, often has small flakes, bright white -Ketamine has no pungent smell but has the worst bitter chemical flavor of all time, tan or yellowish... - @RachelZader on X
• 🚰 Out West, the first federal wastewater report found carfentanil in 17 of 28 sampled counties, while xylazine stayed comparatively rare. Different regions see different adulterants and require different test strips. - @BunkPolice on X

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🏙 City Updates

• 📧 - [San José, CA] - September 20, 2026 - San José moves 1,800 people indoors and calls for expanded addiction treatment and behavioral health support - view newsletter online for more info

📚 Academic Research

• 🚬 Safer smoking supply distribution as a harm reduction strategy for people who smoke drugs in New York State: A qualitative analysis of availability, utilization, and public health impact - 2026-09-20 - doi.org
• 🩺 Peer Support Workers to Improve Emergency Department Care Completion Among Patients Who Use Substances: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial - Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open - 2026-09-18 - doi.org
• 🧪 Adding Treatment‐Continuity Metrics to Opioid Toxicity Investigation: A Triangulation Hypothesis for Applied Toxicology - Journal of Applied Toxicology - 2026-09-18 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

Federal Agencies

• 🧪 [United States] [Final Rule] Schedules of Controlled Substances: Placement of Diphenidine in Schedule I - federalregister.gov

State Laws

• 💊 [California] Opioid overdose reversal medication: school resource officers. - openstates.org

💸 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

• 🗓️ Faces & Voices of Recovery - Register for the 2026 Recovery Leadership Summit virtual event

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