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📰 News Media
🗣️ Social Pulse
Innovation
- 🌊 An @LSU professor has developed a new method to track synthetic opioids through wastewater. He developed the system alongside an undergraduate and a graduate student. He tells us more about his findings today on @LAConsidered. (link) - x.com
- 🧪 New data show opioid overdoses are rising across Montana, even as fentanyl detection declines. Emergency services are responding to increasingly complex overdose calls, with substances like xylazine adding new challenges for providers. (link) - x.com
- 🌊 An @LSU professor has developed a new method to track synthetic opioids through wastewater. He developed the system alongside an undergraduate and a graduate student. He tells us more about his findings today on @LAConsidered. (link) - x.com
Harm Reduction Discourse
- 🟢 Really❓ Harm reduction is credited with saving a large number of lives via widespread naloxone distribution, more recently, a decline in synthetic opioid-related deaths. Since 2018, CA's Naloxone Distribution Project (NDP) reversed 400,000+ overdoses: (link) - x.com
- 🚫 Cities attract transient populations and have more access to ports/borders for drug influx. Decriminalization efforts in places like Oregon (Measure 110 decriminalized small amounts of drugs) aimed to treat addiction as a health issue but faced backlash amid rising overdoses; - x.com
🏙 City Updates
📚 Academic Research
- 2026-03-01 - Harm reduction and pharmacy practice: a scoping review of services for people who use drugs provided by pharmacy staff - BMJ Open - doi.org
- 2026-03-01 - Ethical challenges and opportunities for integrating predictive analytics in community-based overdose prevention - The Lancet Regional Health - Americas - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
- No hits in Law and Policy today.