Featuring content from daily briefings generated July 28, 2026 through July 30, 2026.
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📰 News Media
- 💊 [National, KY] Andy Beshear Set Out to Make Drug Treatment Widely Available in Kentucky. Fraud and Abuse Followed. - propublica.org
- 🏛️ [Los Angeles, CA] L.A. County supervisors approve ballot measure to restore funds for jail alternatives - latimes.com
- 💊 [National, MD] Maryland to host town halls to discuss opioid settlement fund - baltimoresun.com
- 🚑 [National, MA] Study demonstrates the positive impact of expanding mobile addiction clinics - medicalxpress.com
- 🧠 [National, International] The Representation Crisis: Who is the Psychedelic Revolution Really For? - talkingdrugs.org
- 🚬 [Las Vegas, NV] ELFA Vape Aerosols Less Harmful Than Cigarette Smoke: Study - lasvegassun.com
- 🧪 [National] House Advances Bill Scrutinizing How Hospitals Test Patients for Fentanyl - filtermag.org
- 🚭 [National] Plain Packaging and “Drab” Colors: The UK’s Latest Anti-Vape Plan - filtermag.org
- 📊 [National] SAMHSA Releases Annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health - samhsa.gov
- 💊 [National] 3 Takeaways from SAMHSA’s Annual Report for SUD Treatment Pros - bhbusiness.com
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
- 🛟 As one of my doctors told me when I started my recovery journey, "There's something about how abuse affects children that often leads to addiction and incarceration down the road." I had been through both and I do... - @buckbritt on Bluesky
- 💊 wasn't a true opioid addict, not like street opioids, but I was scripted buprenorphine (what they give to addicts and long term pain patients) and then eventually the medicine itself started causing the withdrawals.... - @DesoxynSUD on X
Innovation
- 💻 Technology Platform (Peer PLUS) Supporting the Work of Peer Recovery Coaches and the Communication Needs of Individuals in Recovery From Substance Use Disorder: Protocol for an R21 Development and Usability Trial. (link) - @digitalhealthev on X
- 🧪 Toronto’s Drug Checking Services continues to see contamination & unpredictability in the unregulated opioid supply. Free training + resources on identifying & responding to overdoses & administering naloxone are... - @TOPublicHealth on X
Opposition Views
- 🚫 Supervised consumption sites gave little value. "The best available evidence indicates that supervised consumption sites do little to nothing to reduce drug overdose deaths in their surrounding communities." (link) - @treatment_first on X
- 🚫 This isn’t controversial: harm reduction does not work. LA County has a lot of culpability in how they direct public health funds. The money needs to go directly to getting people off the street and into drug... - @USAttyEssayli on X
🏙 City Updates
- No recent City Updates found.
📚 Academic Research
- 🧠 An Educational Program for Residential Staff to Enhance Confidence in Supporting Substance Use Prevention and Reduction Among Foster Youth - The Human Occupation & Wellbeing Journal - 2026-07-29 - doi.org
- 🩹 Operationalizing recipient-centeredness: three facets of values-driven care in syringe services programs - Implementation Science Communications - 2026-07-28 - doi.org
- 💊 Primer on revised methadone regulations - Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly - 2026-07-27 - doi.org
- An application of hospital at home for precariously housed people who use drugs in a community-based harm reduction setting in Vancouver, Canada
- Implementation of mobile medical units for naloxone distribution and MOUD linkage in Ohio’s HEALing Communities Study: a community case study
- Technology Platform (Peer PLUS) Supporting the Work of Peer Recovery Coaches and the Communication Needs of Individuals in Recovery From Substance Use Disorder: Protocol for an R21 Development and Usability Trial
⚖️ Law & Policy
- No hits in Law and Policy today.
💸 Funding
Current
- 🔬 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.