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📰 News Media

• 🏥 [National, California] Presley Gerber’s death sparks questions about overdose, withdrawal and rehab safety - foxnews.com
• 🧠 [International] Study Finds Psychedelic Decriminalisation Linked to Improved Wellbeing and Reduced Harm - talkingdrugs.org
• 💼 [National] 8 SUD, Addiction Treatment Executives to Watch - bhbusiness.com
• 🏛️ [Fort Worth, TX] Fact Check: Where do Texas Senate District 9 candidates stand on THC policy? - star-telegram.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💊 I also have medication I need to go to a clinic to get every other day cause it’s a narcotic (methadone) and gabapentin and baclofen, I was on benzos since 14 years old but they just took me off and it hurts so much... - @kpin_kitty on X

Innovation

• 🧪 San Francisco learned a new synthetic opioid had reached the city from a 16-year-old's autopsy. His mother gave him two doses of Narcan and assumed fentanyl. The coroner's report named cychlorphine, roughly 10 times... - @BunkPolice on X
• 🚨 A ban without detection and enforcement changes little. This drug does not show on fentanyl test strips. The first task is a test that works, then fast alerts to hospitals and police. - @therawlogs on X

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🏙 City Updates

• 📧 - [Los Angeles, CA] - September 17, 2026 - LA County Close-Up - view newsletter online for more info

📚 Academic Research

• 🛒 Harm reduction vending machines as safer supply-supporting infrastructure - Frontiers in Psychiatry - 2026-09-22 - doi.org
• 🏠 Harm Reduction Vending Machines in Supportive Housing for Veterans - JAMA Network Open - 2026-09-21 - doi.org
• 🚓 Policing interactions and outcomes under shifting decriminalization policies in British Columbia: insights from people who use drugs - Policing & Society - 2026-09-20 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

State Laws

• 💊 [California] Emergencies: personnel: training requirements: opioid overdose reversals. - openstates.org

City Ordinances

• 🏙️ [Cleveland, OH] Emergency Ordinance 909-2026: ...grant from Ohio Department of Health for the Local Tobacco Prevention and Control grant; and to enter into... - cityofcleveland.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

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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