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📰 News Media

• 🧪 [National] China expands export control on drug precursors ahead of Trump-Xi meeting - baltimoresun.com
• 🩺 [White River Junction, NH] HIV/HCV Resource Center hosts first community syringe cleanup day Friday - vnews.com
• 💊 [Greenville, SC] Hayden Panettiere died from an overdose involving fentanyl. She had just gone to rehab, coroner says - mercurynews.com
• 🌿 [National] Kratom cases climb sharply across the US - medicalxpress.com
• 🏥 [National] ‘It’s Very, Very Complex’: Navigating the Maze of Addiction Treatment De Novo Expansion - bhbusiness.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 I don’t blame people for getting addicted to anything, as a former drug addict and current smoker. - @nicolascgrey on Bluesky

Innovation

• 🔬 Drug checking service to open first in Glasgow The inaugural local drug-checking service will open in Glasgow in October, giving people who use drugs essential information about what their drugs contain. Drugs... - @theglasgowreporter on Bluesky
• 🧫 INCREDIBLE NEW HEALTH TOOL IS EMERGING WORLD WIDE! Wastewater surveillance is one of those ideas that’s quietly become a big deal without most people noticing. Cities and states collect samples from sewage treatment... - @SanbornMonte on X

Opposition Views

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🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

• 🏥 Supporting GBV Survivors with Complex Harm Reduction and Mental Health Needs: The Community Crisis/Outreach Response (CCOR) Model’s Viability - Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work - 2026-09-22 - doi.org
• 💉 A framework to determine naloxone saturation with simulation modeling and cost‐effectiveness methods - Addiction - 2026-09-22 - doi.org
• 💉 Predictors of Naloxone Carriage Among People Who Use Opioids in Maine - Substance Use & Misuse - 2026-09-20 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

City Ordinances

• 🏙️ [Milwaukee, WI] Substitute resolution amending the City of Milwaukee’s State Legislative Package to express the City’s opposition to the marketing of nicotine pouches to youth. - milwaukee.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

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