Featuring content from daily briefings generated July 6, 2026 through July 9, 2026.
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📰 News Media
- 🏥 [National, International] Beyond the Prison Gate: Why Harm Reduction Belongs in Prison - talkingdrugs.org
- 💊 [National] DEA Proposes Schedule I Ban for the First “Gas Station Drug,” Tianeptine - filtermag.org
- 🤖 [National] Exclusive: SUD Provider Pelago Pivots to Behavioral Health with New Bot - bhbusiness.com
- 🩹 [National, RI] R.I. has made great progress in curbing fatal overdoses. Now, it's ... - bostonglobe.com
- 🧪 [National] US teens underestimate risks of fentanyl use, survey finds - medicalxpress.com
- 💰 [National] $281M Up for Grabs as Part of Trump’s Great American Recovery Initiative to Support Addiction Treatment - bhbusiness.com
- 🏥 [Chicago, Illinois] Illinois prison healthcare still poor as state goes 1 year without long-term medical provider - chicago.suntimes.com
- 💉 [Lewiston, Maine] Lewiston residents will vote on one-to-one needle exchange this November - wmtw.com
- 💊 [National] SAMHSA Rolls Out Funds for OUD Meds, Says That’s Not Harm Reduction - filtermag.org
- 💊 [National] Uptake of buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder is highly uneven across the United States - medicalxpress.com
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
- 🛟 Inviting any mutuals on the skyline to come and join my harm reduction support meetings! K!nkify Recovery is a peer support group with no 12 steps, no faith based materials, just addicts supporting addicts through... - @jezebellejones on Bluesky
- 💊 I has lived on and off the streets since I was a teenager. I decided to turned to fentanyl after previously using methamphetamine and have overdosed four times. wanted to call it quit but the challenges of... - @Raytrazz on X
Innovation
- 🤖 New Research: Identifying risk factors for drug use recurrence with ecological momentary assessment, wearable technologies, and machine learning: a feasibility trial of peer recovery support specialist intervention... - @FrontPubHealth on X
- 🏪 New York City opened its first publicly supported health vending machines, providing free overdose prevention and health supplies 24/7 on Staten Island. The machines are stocked with items including naloxone... - @BunkPolice on X
Opposition Views
- 🚫 Oh we have less users now than before the enablement regime took over? Less overdoses? Less public use? Less public disorder? The only thing you have achieved is entrenching addiction as a societal norm. And ruined... - @JCraig_Miles on X
- 🚫 The province maintains that abstinence-based treatment hubs are more effective than supervised consumption sites — CBC News (6/6) - @TrendPolCa on X
🏙 City Updates
📚 Academic Research
- 🧪 Community-based interventions for hepatitis C virus elimination among people who use drugs in Shanghai, China - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-07-08 - doi.org
- 🩺 Integrating harm reduction interventions for older adults in opioid treatment programs: a qualitative study of patient and provider perspectives - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-07-08 - doi.org
- 💊 “In My Community, if You’re an Addict, People Don’t Just Look Down on You for the Drugs, but for Being Black, Too”: Black and Latine Methadone Patients’ Experiences Around Addiction, Methadone Treatment, and Intersectional Stigma - Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities - 2026-07-03 - doi.org
- Fentanyl Overdose Harm Reduction Intervention: A Pretest-Posttest Study Among High School Students in Southern California
- Ketamine harm reduction: Collaborative development of a prevention ecosystem using data from the northwest of England
- New alcohol warnings outperform the current U.S. warning in a national survey experiment
⚖️ Law & Policy
State Laws
- 💊 [California] Relative to Substance Use Disorder Treatment Month. - openstates.org
- 📜 [Louisiana] FEES/LICENSES/PERMITS: Provides relative to vapor products, alternative nicotine products, and modified risk tobacco products (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note) - openstates.org
City Ordinances
- 🏙️ [Oakland, CA] Informational Report 26-0852: Subject: Encampment Abatement Policy City Property Analysis From: Office Of The City Administrator Recommendation: Receive An Informational Report... - oakland.legistar.com
- 💊 [Nashville, TN] Resolution RS2026-2074: ...non-violent offenders including intensive court supervision, mandatory drug testing, substance use treatment services, and other social services as... - nashville.legistar.com
- 🏠 [Oakland, CA] City Resolution 26-0691: ...Of Providing Interim Shelter, Transitional Housing, Encampment Closure Operations, Addiction Treatment, Job Readiness, And Other Related Homelessness Services... - oakland.legistar.com
- 🏙️ [Oakland, CA] Informational Report 26-0869: Subject: Encampment Abatement Management Team Operations From: Councilmember Houston Recommendation: Receive An Informational Report From The Encampment Management... - oakland.legistar.com
💸 Funding
Current
- 🛠️ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis - Preventing Youth Overdose: Treatment, Recovery, Education, Awareness and Training - Deadline: Jul 16, 2026
- 🛠️ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis - Rural Opioid Technical Assistance Centers - Deadline: Jul 16, 2026
- 💊 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis - Tribal Opioid Response - Deadline: Jul 16, 2026
- 🤰 Health Resources and Services Administration - Screening & Treatment for Maternal Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders (MMHSUD) - Deadline: Jul 17, 2026
- 🚑 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis - Emergency Department Alternatives to Opioids Program - Deadline: Jul 27, 2026
- 🚑 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis - First Responders-Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act - Deadline: Jul 27, 2026
- 💊 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis - Medication-Assisted Treatment - Prescription Drug and Opioid Addiction - Deadline: Jul 27, 2026
- 💊 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis - Preventing Drug Overdoses: Community Prevention and Response - Deadline: Jul 27, 2026
- 🛠️ Health Resources and Services Administration - Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP)-Technical Assistance - Deadline: Jul 27, 2026
- 🛟 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis - Recovery Community Services Program - Deadline: Jul 27, 2026
- 🔬 National Institutes of Health - Establishing a Center for the Advancement of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Pharmacotherapeutics through Training and Preclinical Support (U54 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) - Deadline: Sep 30, 2026
- 🔬 National Institutes of Health - Limited Competition: Growing Great Ideas: Research Education Course in Entrepreneurship and Product Development for Researchers Studying Drug Use, Drug Misuse, and Drug Addiction (UE5 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) - Deadline: Oct 1, 2026
- 🔬 National Institutes of Health - Development of Interventions to Prevent and Treat Substance Use Disorders and Overdose (UG3/UH3 - Clinical Trial Optional) - Deadline: Aug 21, 2028
- 🔬 National Institutes of Health - Avant Garde/Avenir Awards for Investigators Conducting High Risk/High Reward Research on HIV and Substance Use (or Substance Use Disorders) (DP1 Clinical Trial Optional) - Deadline: Sep 25, 2028
- 🔬 National Institutes of Health - HEAL Initiative: Translating Addiction Epidemiology, Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Research into Practice (R61/R33 - Clinical Trial Optional) - Deadline: Feb 9, 2029
- 🤝 Hearst Foundations - Social Service - Hearst Foundations — Social Service (FAQ; year-round rolling applications) - Minimum grant size is $100,000. - Deadline: No deadlines: year-round, rolling application.
- 💡 Smart Family Fund - First-time grants ranging from $25,000 to $100,000. - Deadline: Open pitch
📣 Activism
- No activism updates found.