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📰 News Media
- 🚻 [New York City, NY] Lack of Public Bathrooms Makes Cities More Hostile - filtermag.org
- 🩺 [Philadelphia, PA] How anti-ICE activists joined forces with harm reductionists in Philadelphia - talkingdrugs.org
- 🌍 [Cape Town, US] “We Are Doing It to Survive”—In Cape Town, the Drug Trade Feels Inevitable - filtermag.org
🗣️ Social Pulse
Innovation
- 📲 Every overdose app waits for someone to stop breathing. NarcanNear alerts trained responders before that happens. Geo-aware. Proactive. Built for Canberra's harm reduction community. (link) - x.com
- 🏥 Partly in response, Nova Scotia Health introduced province-wide "harm reduction" policies for healthcare settings (in 2025) policy.nshealth.ca/Site_Publish... & a funded/permanent in-hospital addiction medicine consult service (in late 2023) both helped legitimize &sustain these interventions 3/ - bsky.app
- 🧪 Synthetic drugs. Novel psychoactive substances. Opioids. The drug threat landscape is evolving faster than traditional tools can keep up. See how 908 Devices' MX908 is staying ahead: (link) - x.com
Harm Reduction Discourse
- 🟢 Harm reduction programs (limited and targeted) Supervised consumption sites → People can use drugs under medical supervision Needle exchange programs → Reduce disease spread (HIV, hepatitis) Safer supply programs (limited cases) - x.com
- 🚫 Canada’s rectal drug kit controversy: what your money is REALLY funding Health Canada is under fire after it was revealed that millions in public funding went to so-called “harm reduction” kits, including supplies for “booty bumping,” a method of drug use involving rectal absorption of illicit concoctions. ... [full long text criticizing as enablement] - x.com
🏙 City Updates
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📚 Academic Research
- 💊 Enhancing opioid overdose education and naloxone distribution through pharmacist-led community outreach - American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy - 2026-03-24 - doi.org
- 🏥 Improving hospital substance use care from the ground up and from the outside in - Canadian Journal of Public Health - 2026-03-20 - doi.org
- 🩺 A Case of 7-Hydroxymitragynine Use Disorder Treated With Buprenorphine - Journal of Addiction Medicine - 2026-03-24 - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
Federal Agencies
- ⚖️ [United States] [Final Rule] Schedules of Controlled Substances: Placement of 3-Methoxyphencyclidine (1-(1-(3-Methoxyphenyl)cyclohexyl)piperidine) in Schedule I - federalregister.gov
- ⚖️ [United States] [Final Rule] Ordering Schedule I and II Controlled Substances Using DEA Form 222; Technical Amendments - federalregister.gov
Court Decisions
- 👩 [Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit] United States v. Paul Curry: This Sixth Circuit ruling may affect how communities and partner agencies handle substance use interventions—such as access to overdose-prevention tools and related supports tied to Medicaid, housing, and criminal-justice pathways—by shaping what conduct law enforcement can address. - courtlistener.com
- 👩 [Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit] United States v. Michael Wayne Bailey: This Sixth Circuit ruling may matter for public health and harm-reduction efforts by influencing how courts view possession or related conduct involving controlled substances, which can affect access to services like naloxone distribution, treatment, and related safety planning for people at risk of overdose. - courtlistener.com