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📰 News Media
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🗣️ Social Pulse
Innovation
- 🧪 Drug checking is an increasingly important part of the picture. Many SSPs provide fentanyl or xylazine test strips, or connect people to warnings about contaminants in the supply. That information reduces accidental poisonings and helps communities understand emerging threats. In a market where potency and adulterants change constantly, basic information becomes a safety intervention. Cutting SSPs also cuts this early-warning capability. - x.com
- 💬 CanTEST Health & Drug Checking Service, also known as pill testing, is a free and confidential health and harm reduction service operating on Ngunnawal & Ngambri lands (Canberra ACT). cantest.com.au - bsky.app
Harm Reduction Discourse
- 🟢 My town gives controlled access to harder substances for damage control. Harm reduction works and helps lessen the severity of addiction related withdrawal And prevents binging and overdoses when the dose is so low there's no way to od Its actively keeping people alive in my town - x.com
- 🟢 Degrees of harm and risk. Zero OD deaths at supervised consumption sites. Safer to use without laced drugs. Safer to not use entirely and provide pathways for rehab and detox, AND forced treatment has iatrogenic risks and poor relapse rates. Better to improve supervised community - x.com
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📚 Academic Research
- 🛟 Study of New York OPC locations finds no adverse economic impact - Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly - 2026-03-15 - doi.org
- 🧭 Lessons from COVID-19: Perspectives of senior managers and decision-makers in substance use services in Wales - Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention and Policy - 2026-03-12 - doi.org
- 🧪 Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine uptake and preferences for service delivery among people who inject drugs accessing a syringe service program - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-03-15 - doi.org
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