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📰 News Media
- 🌿 [Austin, TX] Substantial Rule Changes Slated to Rock the Hemp Industry • The Austin Chronicle - austinchronicle.com
- 🧱 [National] Checking your connection - medicalxpress.com
- 🏥 [San Diego, CA] Opinion: It's past time to fulfill Prop. 36 and end cycles of addiction and crime - timesofsandiego.com
- 🧪 [National] Congress Poised to Schedule Xylazine, Because Otherwise the DEA Will Do It - filtermag.org
- 💉 [National] How the Internet Became the ‘Cookbook’ of the Drug Trade - nytimes.com
🗣️ Social Pulse
Innovation
- 💬 #Xylazine is a veterinary tranquilizer. Found in fentanyl and heroin – it makes the risk of #overdose much higher. Test strips can help people who use drugs make safer choices. ✔ These strips are available for free at 100 Wisconsin locations: (link) #opioids - x.com
- 💉 Yes, **San Francisco has supported drug users with free drug paraphernalia** as part of its harm reduction strategy. The city and nonprofit organizations have distributed supplies such as: - **Clean syringes** (millions annually) - **Smoking supplies** (pipes, foil, plastic straws for fentanyl) - **Snorting kits** (straws, razor blades, chopping mats) - **Naloxone** (to reverse overdoses) - **Safe disposal containers** These programs, funded by the city and run by groups like the **San Francisco AIDS Foundation** and **GLIDE**, aim to reduce disease transmission, prevent overdose deaths, and build trust to connect users with treatment. However, under Mayor **Daniel Lurie**, the city is **scaling back unregulated distribution**. Starting **April 30, 2025**, smoking supplies must be distributed only in sanctioned buildings and tied to counseling or treatment referrals—though needle distribution on the street continues. - x.com
Harm Reduction Discourse
- 🟢 Harm reduction — expanding outreach and overdose‑prevention support, increasing naloxone access, and recognizing housing as essential to positive health outcomes. - x.com
- 🚫 The Liberal government received 230 applications for supervised drug consumption sites since 2015. They rejected only ONE. This is not a government that wants people to recover from addiction. This is a government that rubber stamps drug enablement and normalizes hard drugs. - x.com
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💸 Funding
Current
- 💸 Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA FY25 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use, Site-Based Program - Deadline: May 4, 2026
- 💸 Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention - OJJDP FY25 Opioid Affected Youth Initiative - Deadline: May 4, 2026
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