Featuring content from daily briefings generated August 21, 2026 through August 24, 2026.
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📰 News Media
- 🌿 [Albany, NY] Albany County set to ban kratom sales, distribution - wamc.org
- 🍃 [Miami, FL] Baby Boomers Are Smoking More Pot. Their Neighbors Are Fuming. - wsj.com
- 🧠 [National, International] NICOLAS LANGLITZ, MD, PHD: You have to find a space for these wild psychedelics in a rule governed world - drogriporter.hu
- 📉 [National] Why Getting High Has Only Gotten Cheaper - nytimes.com
- 💉 [National] As a US attorney, I see fentanyl's horrifying toll up close. Congress must act now - foxnews.com
- 🌿 [National] Cases of 'scromiting' condition tied to cannabis use spike among teens, young adults: New study - thehill.com
- 🚬 [National, CT] Fewer e-cigarette sales in CT, but nicotine use is up - ctmirror.org
- 🌿 [Oceanside, CA] Oceanside creates openings for two more cannabis retail licenses - sandiegouniontribune.com
- 🧠 [National, International] Psychedelics: The State of the Science in 2026 – Interview with Sandeep Nayak, MD - drogriporter.hu
- 🌿 [National] Cannabis addiction climbs fast while alcohol use disorder slowly declines across the USA - medicalxpress.com
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
Innovation
- 🧠 @CMerandi @Breelee420 @ibdgirl76 — serious question. Between your networks, do we have the people and expertise to build a real patient-outcomes dataset? Not another collection of anecdotes. A structured cohort:... - @TeriCottone on X
- 📊 From Crisis Response to Metric-Driven Control: How Opioid Provisions Expanded Beyond Altruism, Constrained Patient Voice, Normalized Tools Against Grievances — and Correlate with Elevated Suicide Risk (link) - @Eadranai on X
Opposition Views
- 🚫 Seattle logic: Hand out free needles: No hep B shot required. No HIV/AIDS status asked. Just take ‘em and go. Pick the used ones out of the park so kids don’t step on them: “Produce your vaccination records in 48... - @JezebellePNW on X
- 🚫 "Supervised injection sites" facilities where people bring illegal DRUGS and inject them on-site, with staff standing by. This is what taxpayers are FUNDING as homelessness policy — "Harm Reduction" an approach that... - @InstituteCicero on X
🏙 City Updates
- 📧 - [San José, CA] - August 21, 2026 - Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention Newsletter - content.govdelivery.com
- 📧 - [Memphis, TN] - August 21, 2026 - Shelby County Health Department Community Care Fair at Greater Imani Church on Saturday, August 29th - newsletter - shelbytnhealth.com
📚 Academic Research
- 🗺️ Geospatial Analysis of Opioid-Related Outcomes Across Riverside County ZIP Codes and Associations With Social Determinants of Health - Cureus - 2026-08-22 - doi.org
- 💊 Policy Pathways for Addressing Opioid-Stimulant Polysubstance Use - Substance Use & Addiction Journal - 2026-08-19 - doi.org
- 💊 Prescribed alternative stimulants among people who use unregulated stimulants: Examining the association between maximum dose reached and medication discontinuation in the first 3 years of implementation in British Columbia, Canada - Addiction - 2026-08-20 - doi.org
- 🥃 Having conversations about alcohol in frontline healthcare services: Experiences and perceptions of consumers and healthcare staff - PLOS Global Public Health - 2026-08-19 - doi.org
- 💊 Multi-stakeholder perspectives on acceptability and delivery of buprenorphine for women who use drugs - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-08-22 - doi.org
- 🧭 Reshaping addiction harm reduction program in Iran: The Ministry of Health’s journey from reactive measures to strategic optimization - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-08-19 - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
City Ordinances
💸 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
- 💊 Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA FY 2026 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Site-Based Program - Deadline: Sep 24, 2026
- 💊 Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA FY 2026 Second Chance Act Family-Based Substance Use Disorder Treatment Program - Deadline: Sep 24, 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
Future
📣 Activism
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