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📰 News Media

• 💊 [GA] Middle Georgia federal prosecutors support fight to get fentanyl off streets - ajc.com
• 💊 [Nashville, TN] Nashville Council signs off on opioid settlement with Publix - tennessean.com
• 🌍 [International] ‘Not in the Room’: Nigeria’s New Harm Reduction Masterplan Excludes Reformers - talkingdrugs.org
• 🩺 [National] Many chronic pain patients can reduce opioid use with slow, voluntary taper - medicalxpress.com
• 🚬 [National] Former top cop warns of loophole exploited by illicit Chinese vape companies 'targeting our youth' - foxnews.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💊 Let me tell you what a regular day looked like when I was homeless on the streets of San Francisco. My priority was staying as close to the Hondos as possible. Staying close to the places I could steal from, sell it... - @AmberRichmondSF on X

Innovation

• 🧪 A new @JAMANetworkOpen study found xylazine detection rose in fentanyl-positive urine drug tests while concentration declined. The takeaway is not panic. It is surveillance. Communities need faster signals when the... - @ActionForOD on X
• 📊 A new state dashboard brings transparency to opioid settlement spending. The UK CCTS informatics team partnered with RADOR-KY to build the machine learning models to forecast overdose hotspots—foundational data... - @UK_CCTS on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Disinformation. There is more than one kind of "harm reduction" besides safe consumption sites. Also, these are not "safe" consumption sites, but rather APPROVED ones. They invariably become dealer and distribution... - @sk_the_extrat on X

🏙 City Updates

• 💉 - [Boston, MA] - July 8, 2026 - $600,000 in New Grant Funding to Prevent Community Overdose Deaths and Expand Access to Treatment - boston.gov

📚 Academic Research

• 🩹 Addressing Challenges in a Pilot Naloxone Distribution Program for BIPOC Communities in King County, Washington: A Community Practice Brief - Journal of Public Health Management & Practice - 2026-07-10 - doi.org
• 💉 Evaluating demographic variation in no-cost naloxone distribution in North Carolina: a cross-sectional survey study - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-07-09 - doi.org
• 💉 Reimagining Methadone Clinics: A Case For Integrating Risk Reduction to Address the Complex Realities of Opioid Use Disorder - Substance Use & Addiction Journal - 2026-07-10 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

State Laws

• 💊 [Illinois] LIBRARIES-OPIOID ANTAGONISTS - openstates.org
• 💊 [Illinois] JAIL RELEASE-OPIOID ANTAGONIST - openstates.org

💸 Funding Click to expand

Current

• 🔬 Health Resources and Services Administration - Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part D Coordinated HIV Services and Access to Research for Women, Infants, Children, and Youth (WICY) Existing Geographic Service Areas - Deadline: Jul 13, 2026
• 🛠️ 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
• 🔬 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 - 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 - Health - Hearst Foundations (Health) — Year-Round Rolling 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 (year-round rolling applications) - Minimum grant size is $100,000. - Deadline: Year-round, rolling application; there are no deadlines.
• 🤝 Smart Family Fund - Angel Philanthropy (Pitch for Funding) - First time grants ranging from $25,000 to $100,000. - Deadline: Open pitch

📣 Activism

• 📣 Housing Works - Take action with Housing Works advocacy on housing and HIV policy