Twice-Weekly Rollup

Featuring content from daily briefings generated August 11, 2026 through August 13, 2026.

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📰 News Media Click to expand

• 🍃 [Austin, TX] Are THC products still on Texas shelves safe? It’s complicated, experts say - dallasobserver.com
• 🌿 [Dutchess County (Beacon referenced), NY] Dutchess County kratom ban leaves advocates unhappy as some products are still legal - wamc.org
• 🧪 [National, North Carolina] Service Delivery in a Dynamic Drug Market: Building on Successes of SSP Service Delivery in North Carolina - opioiddata.org
• 🚨 [National, International] US defense secretary says Colombia's president has requested US collaboration in anti-drug efforts - apnews.com
• 🛡️ [National] We Need to Focus on Violence Against Women Who Use Drugs - filtermag.org
• 🌿 [Ammon, Idaho] A Herbal Product Sold at Gas Stations Is Being Blamed for an Addiction Crisis - wsj.com
• 🏥 [National, Maryland] Maryland’s youth turning over a new leaf: Teens vaping less - baltimoresun.com
• 🚦 [National] The Drug War Myths People Still Believe - filtermag.org
• 🧑 [National] Virtual intervention reduces substance use in American Indians and Alaska Natives - medicalxpress.com
• 🏥 [Louisa, KY] Addiction Recovery Care Gets New CEO Days After $16M DOJ Settlement - bhbusiness.com

🗣️ Social Pulse Click to expand

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 Lewis Wright - known to many around southern Ohio as Menace - is a musician, motorcycle enthusiast, father, husband, cancer survivor, and as someone with a lived experience of substance use, an advocate for... - @index on Bluesky
• 🛟 Hey all, I’m in the home stretch of my recovery journey, and need a hand restarting sober life. Anything you could give will help immensely. gofund.me/f3b5d17e8 - @kidkilowatt on Bluesky

Innovation

• 🧠 @Super_Powers_AI Hey Super, build an interactive Overdose Emergency Response Simulator grounded in evidence-based SAMHSA and American Heart Association emergency protocols. (link) The first viewport features a live... - @RohanArun on X
• 📈 Bayesian ACCESS for Understanding Latent Epidemic Trajectories from Publicly Released Suppressed Data: Application to U.S. Opioid-related Overdose Mortality Jiahao Cao, Kehe Zhang, Cici Bauer (link) [𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚝.𝙼𝙴 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚝.𝙰𝙿] - @StatisticsME on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 The disastrous era of harm reduction and housing first is finally over. Folks like @Twolfrecovery and me have fought for years for Treatment First. It’s incredible to see this come to fruition under the Trump-Vance... - @SoledadUrsua on X
• 🚫 In Seattle, the influence of harm reduction as a policy approach extends well beyond combatting addiction. It's the driving force behind "Housing First" -- which explicitly prohibits requirements for abstinence and... - @SaraENelson on X

🏙 City Updates

• 📧 - [Oklahoma City, OK] - August 12, 2026 - Key to Home expands CARE Team with support from the Oklahoma City Community Foundation

  EXCERPT: "- Key to Home’s CARE Team has expanded with support from the Oklahoma City Community Foundation’s Bridge OKC Fund to create new pathways to housing for people with complex mental health needs.
  - The expansion uses a multidisciplinary approach to homelessness, with staff skilled in street outreach, first response, mental health, and clinical care.
  - The funding will help secure rental assistance for clients while they work with case managers toward stabilization.
  - The full story is available at [Link to story](https://www.okc.gov/News-articles/Key-to-Home-expands-CARE-Team-with-support-from-the-Oklahoma-City-Community-Foundation?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery)."

• 📧 - [Oklahoma City, OK] - August 10, 2026 - Construction begins on MAPS 4 Robert Ravitz Crisis Center

  EXCERPT: "Oklahoma City broke ground on the MAPS 4 Robert Ravitz Crisis Center, a $12.3-million facility to expand mental health and substance use crisis services.
  The center will include emergency assessments, stabilization detoxification, counseling, respite, sleep facilities and connections to ongoing support, and it will be operated by the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
  The Arnall Family Foundation contributed $2.6 million to the project, and MAPS 4 funding through the temporary penny sales tax supports the initiative.
  The crisis center will be located at 1200 NE 13th St. on the east side of the OU Health Sciences Center campus and is scheduled to open in 2028."

📚 Academic Research Click to expand

• 💉 Evaluation of Naloxone Training & Cultural Tailoring Recommendations from Billings Urban Indian Health and Wellness Staff - RVU Elevate - 2026-08-07 - doi.org
• 💊 Patient-Reported Versus Pharmacy-Verified Naloxone Co-Prescription Fill Rates in a Chronic Pain Clinic: A Cross-Sectional Discordance Analysis - Pain Medicine - 2026-08-07 - doi.org
• 💊 Probable naltrexone-precipitated opioid withdrawal in a patient receiving methadone maintenance after use of a weight-loss medication obtained through a direct-to-consumer telemedicine platform: a case report - Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention and Policy - 2026-08-07 - doi.org
• Acceptance of Opioid Agonist Treatment in Alberta Bed-based Addiction Treatment Services
• Contemporary patterns of methamphetamine use and misuse: neurotoxicity, dependency, and societal burden
• Naloxone Rescue for Late Oxycodone Toxicity in Multimorbid Octogenarian After Neuraxial Anesthesia

⚖️ Law & Policy

Federal Agencies

• 🧪 [United States] [Final Rule] Schedules of Controlled Substances: Temporary Placement of O-Desmethyltramadol in Schedule I - federalregister.gov

State Laws

• 💊 [Illinois] SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER SERVICE - openstates.org

💸 Funding Click to expand

Current

• NEWDeadline Approaching🚑 Office of National Drug Control Policy - Nonfatal Overdoses in Emergency Departments: Bridging Patient Characteristics, Biospecimen Toxicology, and Drug Supply Composition - Deadline: Aug 31, 2026
• Deadline Approaching🩺 Centers for Disease Control-GHC - Improving regional capacity to respond to HIV, TB, and other global health priorities in Central America - Deadline: Aug 31, 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.