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📰 News Media

• 💉 [Denver, CO] Colorado lawmakers kill supervised use sites bill after Polis ... - denverpost.com
• 🧪 [San Diego, California] Drug checking aims to protect users from serious harm - latimes.com
• 🧑 [National] Harm reduction workforce, behavioral health, and service ... - harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com
• ⚖️ [National] Opinion | 'Safe drug sites' don't work. The data proves it. - washingtonpost.com
• 💊 [National] A quiet revolution in drug policy: States embrace fentanyl ... - washingtonpost.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 🧠 As a former addict STOP COMPARING AI TO A FUCKING DRUG. AI addiction is as real as porn addiction. Addiction is a genuine life destroying disease. Addicts don't actively harm the environment with their usage. Whose... - @g-busters on Bluesky

Innovation

• 🧪 How does it work? 1. Surrender a substance 2. Tell us what you think it is & about your drug use 3. We do lab tests inc. a test for synthetic opioids 4. After ~1 hour, we have results & can give honest advice - @WeAreTheLoopUK on X
• 🚨 ONIC released 2 public safety bulletins on dangerous drugs in Ohio: potent orphine analogs & animal sedatives medetomidine & xylazine that increase overdose risks. Emergence of Orphines: (link) Veterinary Sedatives:... - @OhNarcoticIntel on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 In the name of denouncing the racist war on drugs, California created drug hubs free from monitoring by law enforcement. Democrat Governor @GavinNewsom began the Harm Reduction Initiative, which teaches drug use to... - @WordsofFaithTo1 on X

🏙 City Updates

• 📧 - [Louisville, KY] - July 31, 2026 - Harm Reduction Outreach Services expands hepatitis C testing in Louisville - newsletter

  EXCERPT: "- Louisville's Harm Reduction Outreach Services (HROS) is launching on-site hepatitis C PCR testing to identify active infections and link people to treatment.
  - Since January, HROS has conducted 25 tests and linked eight people to treatment.
  - No appointment is necessary and walk-ins are welcome for hepatitis C testing and related harm reduction services.
  - For more information, visit the Harm Reduction Outreach Services page for locations and hours of operation."
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📚 Academic Research

• 🤖 Customizing and fine-tuning opioid overdose machine learning models for community-specific dashboards - Journal Of Big Data - 2026-07-30 - doi.org
• 🩺 Centering Veteran expertise: advancing peer-led harm reduction in the Veterans health administration - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-08-01 - doi.org
• 🧠 Developing a Substance Use Practice Approach for Peer Support Specialists in Early Psychosis Coordinated Specialty Care - Early Intervention in Psychiatry - 2026-08-01 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

City Ordinances

• 🏙️ [Milwaukee, WI] A substitute ordinance relating to penalties for the sale of alcohol, tobacco, and cannabinoid products to minors. - milwaukee.legistar.com

💸 Funding Click to expand

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 - Health - Hearst Foundations Health Funding (Rolling Applications) - Minimum grant size is $100,000. - Deadline: Year-round, rolling application; there are no deadlines.
• 🤝 Hearst Foundations - Social Service - Hearst Foundations — Social Service funding (year-round, rolling application) - Minimum grant size is $100,000. (Other grant sizes/types vary; refer to the Grant Recipients Database.) - 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

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