Daily Update

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📰 News Media

• 🍷 [National] STAT+: Treatment for alcohol addiction is undergoing a seismic shift. Many say it’s overdue - statnews.com
• 💊 [National] The Buprenorphine Locator Is About to Disappear. Download Your Local List Now. - chadsabora.substack.com
• 💀 [National] GOP Eyes Death Penalty for Fentanyl Sale, as DOJ Calls for More Executions - filtermag.org
• 💉 [National] Medicaid Mental Health and Substance Use: Expansion Trends and the Fiscal Pressure Ahead - kff.org
• 💉 [National] Fatal drug overdoses fall for third straight year: CDC - thehill.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 I understand what you’re saying because I experienced that cycle myself for years. I was arrested multiple times, detoxed in jail, then released mid-withdrawal and went right back to using. Honestly, if I had been... - @missamberreid on X

Innovation

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Opposition Views

• 🚫 Housing First, morgue second: From Fresno but S.F. pays for his room. He does fentanyl and crack but listened to Harm Reduction rhetoric to “do it with friends.” Didn’t help. A friend OD’ed in his room. - @SusanDReynolds on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research

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• 🧮 County-Level Heterogeneity in Opioid Harm Reduction and Treatment Effects: A Calibrated Markov Model - 2026-05-13 - doi.org
• 🧪 Asymmetric evidence in harm reduction: behavioural adaptation and net-effect evaluation - Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) - 2026-05-10 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

State Laws

• 📜 [Tennessee] Public Health - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45, the number of days a licensing board has to respond to the department of health after the department has inquired about the status of an action or lack of action taken against a prescriber whose prescribing patterns of controlled substances have been identified as representing a statistical outlier, or if the prescriber is identified as a top prescriber or a high-risk prescriber. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. - openstates.org
• 📜 [Georgia] Controlled substances; Schedule I; psilocybin; revise a provision - openstates.org

💸 Funding Click to expand

Current

• 💸 Centers for Disease Control - NCIPC - Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) - Deadline: Jun 8, 2026
• 🤝 Hearst Foundations - Social Service - Hearst Foundations - Year-round, rolling application (Social Service) - Minimum grant size is $100,000. - Deadline: Year-round, rolling application; there are no deadlines.
• 🩺 Hearst Foundations - Health - Hearst Foundations Health funding (FAQ application process) - Minimum grant size is $100,000. - Deadline: Year-round, rolling application; there are no deadlines.
• 🤝 Smart Family Fund - Angel Philanthropy (First-time Grants) - First time grants ranging from $25,000 to $100,000. - Deadline: Open pitch

📣 Activism

• 📣 Students for Sensible Drug Policy - Contact federal representatives to decriminalize cannabis now
• 📣 The National Council for Mental Wellbeing - Tell Congress to release delayed SAMHSA funding opportunities