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📰 News Media

• 🧪 [Colorado] Colorado Marijuana Company Voluntarily Recalls Dozens of Contaminated Products Amid State Regulatory Delays - propublica.org
• 🏥 [Oklahoma City, Oklahoma] With 100 days left, OK County shifts ARPA funds to new Behavioral Care Center - oklahoman.com
• 🌿 [Oxford, MS] Deaths of students at the University of Mississippi cast spotlight on kratom - baltimoresun.com
• 🌿 [Detroit, Michigan] 2 Ole Miss students dead, kratom suspected. Is it legal in Michigan? - freep.com
• 💉 [National] HRSA Awards Nearly $90 Million to Expand Addiction Treatment and Recovery Services in Rural Communities - hrsa.gov

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

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Innovation

• 🏪 We would like to provide an update regarding our harm reduction vending machine. HCPH has distributed the last of our remaining supply of Xylazine test strips and Fentanyl test strips, and at this time, we will not... - @HuronCoHealth on X
• 🚨 ⚠️PUBLIC SAFETY ADVISORY⚠️ #DEA warns fentanyl is being mixed w/highly potent substances like cychlorphine, xylazine, nitazenes, & medetomidine--many not approved for human use & are often undetectable. (link)... - @DEAHQ on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Supply - criminal Possession - practically not criminal Consumption- socially tolerated Addiction - victim Death - victim, the tip of the problem: less death comes from fewer addicts comes from fewer consumers comes... - @tomintoultory on X

🏙 City Updates

• 🏠 - [Boston, MA] - September 25, 2026 - Boston Celebrates 40 Years of Workforce Development Programs Supporting Residents Experiencing Homelessness - boston.gov

📚 Academic Research

• 💊 Appropriate and Acceptable? A Mixed Methods Study of a “Smart” Harm Reduction Vending Machine in Pennsylvania - Contemporary Drug Problems - 2026-09-25 - doi.org
• 🫀 Opioid overdose risk and resilience among older Black men in Chicago: findings from community-based focus groups - BMC Public Health - 2026-09-25 - doi.org
• 🧠 System dynamics and related modeling of opioid use and interventions: a scoping review - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-09-24 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

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💸 Funding (Click to expand)

Current

• 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
• Deadline Approaching · 🔬 National Institutes of Health - Limited Competition: Growing Great Ideas: Research Education Course in Entrepreneurship and Product Development for Researchers Studying Drug Use, Drug Misuse, and Drug Addiction (UE5 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) - Deadline: Oct 1, 2026

📣 Activism

• 🚶 Shatterproof - Register for the 2026 Shatterproof Walk in Boston
• 🗓️ National Harm Reduction Coalition - Register for NHRC’s Centering Care Conference in New York City

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