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📰 News Media

• 🌿 [Mississippi] Officials Investigating Mississippi Student Deaths Issue Warning About Kratom - nytimes.com
• 🌿 [Oxford, MS] The ‘really sinister’ legal supplement found at death scenes of two Ole Miss students - nypost.com
• 💊 [Greenville, SC] Hayden Panettiere's death highlights risk of overdose death after stopping and resuming drug use - lasvegassun.com
• 💊 [Colorado] Issue groups start spending big on attempts to change Colorado laws through the ballot - denverpost.com
• 🚔 [Fort Worth, TX] Tarrant medical examiner rules two jail deaths due to drug overdoses - star-telegram.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 🛟 The Peacocks have never made an attempt to be inclusive to all. Nor do I expect them to. Why didn't they think to SLOW THE FLOW of fetty on our streets? Those who have LIVED EXPERIENCE in addiction and homelessness... - @ccrexpdx on Bluesky

Innovation

• 🧪 Scotland’s first local drug-checking service will open in Glasgow in October 2026, allowing people to submit drugs for rapid analysis and receive harm-reduction advice alongside the results #ukpharmacy #addiction... - @pharmaj on Bluesky
• 🏠 Not all recovery housing supports residents on medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD/MAT), even though both are life-saving. To understand what gets in the way, The ASPIRE Lab within the Addiction Science Team... - @mimh_addisci on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 People with severe addiction & mental illness don’t stay in four walls. This is something the normie population doesn’t understand. The policy makers don’t care if “housing first”works or not, they keep cashing in,... - @TeaPartyPDX on X

🏙 City Updates

• 📧 - [San José, CA] - September 7, 2026 - A Message from Mayor Matt - view newsletter online for more info

📚 Academic Research

• 🧪 The 5 Senses Framework—People Who Use Drugs Were and Are the First Drug Checkers - Substance Use & Addiction Journal - 2026-09-23 - doi.org
• 🩺 HCV knowledge deficits are independently associated with HCV-positive status among people who use drugs in Indiana: implications for micro-elimination - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-09-20 - doi.org
• 🩺 Evaluating Filled Buprenorphine Prescriptions Following a Short-Duration Telementoring Program in Three Nevada Medicaid Managed Care Organizations - Substance Use & Addiction Journal - 2026-09-22 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

City Ordinances

• 💊 [Jacksonville, FL] Ordinance 2026-0510-E: ORD re Opioid & Substance Use Disorder Settlement Proceeds Grants; Approp $5,279,951 from the Opioid Settlement Fund Contingency... - jaxcityc.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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