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📰 News Media
- 🏠 [National] White House Budget: No Funds for Housing, Some for ... - Filter - filtermag.org
- 💉 [National] New ‘safer opioid’ delivers pain relief without addiction risk in early tests - foxnews.com
- 🧠 [National] Psilocybin mushrooms are going mainstream, but scientific research and regulation lag behind - theconversation.com
- 📰 [Seattle, WA] Private equity firm gives Skagit County company a half-billion-dollar boost - bizjournals.com
- 📰 [TX] Turbulent Times for the Texas Hemp Industry - The Austin Chronicle - austinchronicle.com
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
Innovation
- 🧠 (link) = car accident prediction machines (live prototype) (open source) (link) food and water scanning systems that detect bacteria booms (no more food poisoning or upset stomach from failures in food production,... - @graylanj on X
- 🧪 This is exactly why harm reduction and drug-checking services are more vital than ever. 🧪 If we know Carfentanil is in the Bay Area supply, we have to assume every street drug is contaminated. How do we get more... - @FinelyBrewed on X
Harm Reduction Discourse
- 🟢 What are we doing wrong? “Safe supply” means 64 mg “clean” hydromorphone pills resold as “dillys” on the street. Unlimited naloxone administered 10x a day to the same clients @janephilpott a well intentioned idea... - @drannamedical on X
- 🚫 It’s time to scrap “Housing First” as a policy tool to address homelessness. It is a failure because it does not address addiction, which is the root cause of homelessness for the vast majority of the unhoused. (link) - @bruderSkin on X
🏙 City Updates
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📚 Academic Research
- 💊 State Tele-Buprenorphine Prescribing Policies by Medical Professional Type - JAMA Health Forum - 2026-04-24 - doi.org
- 🧪 Drug sellers' use of a drug checking service amid the overdose crisis in British Columbia, Canada - Addiction - 2026-04-24 - doi.org
- 🏠 Dying younger, dying of overdose: gendered and age dimensions of mortality and shelter service access among individuals experiencing homelessness in Toronto, Canada - BMC Public Health - 2026-04-22 - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
State Laws
💸 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
- 💸 Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA FY25 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (COSSUP) Investigations Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) - Deadline: May 8, 2026
- 🩺 Hearst Foundations - Health - Hearst Foundations – Year-Round, Rolling Health Funding Applications (via Grants Portal) - Minimum grant size is $100,000. - Deadline: Year-round, rolling application; there are no deadlines.
- 🏥 Hearst Foundations - Social Service - Hearst Foundations — Social Service (FAQ-guided, year-round rolling applications) - Minimum grant size is $100,000. - Deadline: Year-round, rolling application; there are no deadlines.
- 🤝 Smart Family Fund - First-time grants ranging from $25,000 to $100,000. - Deadline: Open pitch
Future
- 🏥 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Active and Upcoming Funding Opportunities (RWJF) - Expected: TBA
- 💉 AIDS United - Harm Reduction Futures Fund - Expected: TBA