Featuring content from daily briefings generated August 14, 2026 through August 17, 2026.
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📰 News Media
- 🧠 [National] Are Psychedelics Right-Wing Now? - newyorker.com
- 🧠 [National] Psychedelics amplify brain connectivity through serotonin receptors, study suggests - medicalxpress.com
- 🧑 [National] Three techniques to improve the flow, rhythm, and feel of addiction counseling - recoveryreview.blog
- 🧠 [National] Veterans with PTSD travel to other countries to access psychedelics - cbsnews.com
- 💉 [Augusta, ME] 3 organizations to receive grants from opioid settlement funds - centralmaine.com
- 🚐 [Enfield, CT] CT’s first state-funded methadone vans expand access to treatment - ctmirror.org
- 🍃 [Deerfield, Massachusetts] Massachusetts cracks down on kratom, following lead of local communities - gazettenet.com
- ⚖️ [Sacramento, CA] Proposition 36 Rollout Falls Short of Treatment Promises as Felony Arrests Mount - davisvanguard.org
- 💉 [Las Vegas (Southern Nevada), Nevada] Decade of collaboration helps lower overdoses, but new drug threats emerging - lasvegassun.com
- 💊 [New Haven, Connecticut] FBI New Haven seizes 23 kilograms of Fentanyl-laced pills - wfsb.com
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
- 💬 Anti-euphoria is not what's going on. Concerns about addictive drugs (I'm a former addict) are about overdose deaths, are anti irresponsibility to children and family, and it takes into account the simple fact that... - @johnshirley2024 on Bluesky
- 🛟 I am in long term recovery from a heroin addiction. With that life comes homelessness, mental health issues, trauma, crime, bankruptcy etc. I was one of the lucky ones that made it out alive— many of us don’t. This... - @tippytopANON17 on X
Innovation
- 🧪 A local harm-reduction group is making waves by distributing Florida's first legal xylazine test strips, tackling a dangerous veterinary tranquilizer that amplifies the fentanyl crisis. Learn more here... - @citizenptnewsfl on Bluesky
- 🌈 If you're at Megaplex 21st - 23rd and need harm reduction supplies lemme know here or @mossposs on Telegram to coordinane 🌈 i'll have narcan, plan b, fent test strips, and condoms on hand. Free, no questions asked 💜 - @genderestranged on Bluesky
Opposition Views
- 🚫 BC’s 4 Pillars drug plan failed because it was never balanced. Funding skewed to harm reduction, while treatment, prevention, and enforcement lagged - @sanedelville on X
- 🚫 I’m with you on most things, but it would only work if the mentality around substance abuse puts accountability back onto the abuser as opposed to everybody else for them having access to things, and removes the... - @MorganEakinGOP on X
🏙 City Updates
- 🏙️ - [Las Vegas, NV] - August 11, 2026 - New approaches to substance misuse prevention take center stage at annual summit - southernnevadahealthdistrict.org
📧 - [Las Vegas, NV] - August 13, 2026 - Mayor Shelley Berkley To Attend First Graduation Of New Community Court Program Focused On Helping Unhoused Individuals Get Off The Street
EXCERPT: "Las Vegas launched a new Community Court program within the Municipal Court to address the underlying causes of homelessness and reduce recidivism.
The program connects participants with services including permanent housing, mental health and addiction support, employment assistance, and other stabilizing resources.
The first eight graduates will be recognized at a ceremony on Aug. 20 at 9 a.m. on the second floor of Municipal Court, located at 100 E. Clark Ave.
The initiative is overseen by Hearing Commissioner Anthony Ruggiero and aims to provide compassionate, accountable, and resource-driven support to help individuals become healthy, housed, and hired."
📚 Academic Research
- 💊 Accessing treatment against drug use: the biopolitics of methadone across the Georgian–Abkhazian conflict divide - Territory Politics Governance - 2026-08-12 - doi.org
- 🚑 Occupational Differences in Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths: A Retrospective Descriptive Analysis - Substance Use & Misuse - 2026-08-14 - doi.org
- 💊 Pew report underscores benefits of take‐home methadone - Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly - 2026-08-17 - doi.org
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⚖️ Law & Policy
- No hits in Law and Policy today.
💸 Funding
Current
- Deadline 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
- 🔬 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
- NEW💊 Bloomberg Philanthropies (Overdose Prevention Initiative) - Bloomberg Overdose Prevention Initiative (State partnerships) - Five-year reinvestment of $120 million (investment includes hard-hit states and continues support for Michigan and Pennsylvania); total commitment to the initiative of $170 million over eight years. - Deadline: rolling
- 🤝 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.