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📰 News Media
- 🧠 [VA] Senate Committee Weighs “Critical” VA-focused Psychedelics Bill - filtermag.org
- 🧪 [National] Funding cuts for fentanyl test strips raise concerns: "It doesn't make sense" - cbsnews.com
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
Innovation
- 🧪 Nearly 60% of overdose deaths between March 2024 and 2025 involved fentanyl. Drug checking tools like test strips can help reduce overdose risk. (link) - @pewtrusts on X
- 🤖 Narcan Rescue Launches Free Life-Saving Initiative to Combat Opioid Overdoses Through Public Access Vending Machines (link) #NarcanRescue - @prunderground on X
Harm Reduction Discourse
- 🟢 Local studies near supervised consumption sites show overdose mortality reductions of 26-67% in surrounding areas - @Mllegallant on X
- 🟢 Since our state(NC) made access to naloxone easier we've seen our od deaths decrease by 38%. That's harm reduction. We still have a ways to go but that is a substantial start. - @Sixxwitch1 on X
🏙 City Updates
📚 Academic Research
- 📉 Understanding Overdose Risk: The Role of System-level Factors after a Non-Fatal Drug Overdose Event - Digital Commons - East Tennessee State University (East Tennessee State University) - 2026-05-01 - dc.etsu.edu
- 🧰 Co-designing the Indigenous Evaluation Toolkit for Opioid Prevention in American Indian/Alaska Native Communities. - PubMed - 2026-04-30 - doi.org
- 🧪 Evaluating comparative effect of non‐pharmacological interventions adjunctive to opioid agonist therapy for opioid use disorder: A systematic review with network meta‐analysis - Addiction - 2026-04-28 - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
Federal Agencies
💸 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
- 💸 Health Resources and Services Administration - Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP)-Planning - Deadline: May 29, 2026
- 💸 Health Resources and Services Administration - Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP)-Impact - Deadline: Jun 1, 2026
- 💸 DOC NOAA - ERA Production - Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund (Annual Appropriations and IIJA Funds) - Deadline: Jun 29, 2026
- 🩺 Hearst Foundations - Health - Hearst Foundations – Health (year-round, rolling grant applications) - Minimum grant size is $100,000. - Deadline: No deadlines; applications are year-round on a rolling basis.
- 🩺 Hearst Foundations - Social Service - Hearst Foundations — Social Service (rolling application) - Minimum grant size is $100,000. - Deadline: Year-round, rolling application; there are no deadlines.
- 🤝 Smart Family Fund - Angel Philanthropy (First-Time Grants via Pitch) - First time grants ranging from $25,000 to $100,000. - Deadline: Open pitch
Future
- 💉 AIDS United - Harm Reduction Futures Fund - Expected: TBA
- 🩺 APA Foundation - Helping Hands Grants - Helping Hands Grants Program (APA Foundation) - Up to $5,000 - Expected: May 1 (applications must be submitted by May 1)
- 🏥 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Expected: TBA