Featuring content from daily briefings generated August 25, 2026 through August 27, 2026.
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📰 News Media
- 💉 [National, Louisiana] A state gave sheriffs 20% of its opioid settlement cash. We followed the money - statnews.com
- 🏥 [Riverside, CA] Family awarded millions for dad's fatal overdose in notoriously deadly SoCal jail system - latimes.com
- 🌿 [National, MA] Retailers sue to halt Mass. kratom ban days before it takes effect - wbur.org
- 🫧 [Sonoma County, CA] Sonoma County moves to restrict nitrous oxide sales, citing troubling public health trend - mercurynews.com
- 🌿 [National, Michigan] What's the latest on 7-OH and kratom availability and addiction care? - medicalxpress.com
- 🏥 [National] Addiction Treatment Providers Navigate Rising Federal Scrutiny on Fraud - bhbusiness.com
- 🌿 [National] Americans Encounter Risks at Psychedelic Clinics Abroad - nytimes.com
- 🏙️ [Burlington, VT] Burlington looks to the state for help combating homelessness and drug use downtown - vtdigger.org
- 🏪 [Los Angeles, CA] L.A. takes aim at phenibut, an unregulated 'gas station drug' that is growing in popularity - latimes.com
- 💉 [Pueblo, Colorado] Syringe litter did not increase after a needle exchange ban was overturned in Pueblo, Colorado, but health services suffered - theconversation.com
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
- 🧠 I struggled with kicking a meth habit for 20 years and have been successful now for 6 years. Watching a loved one struggle with fentanyl is a whole separate beast. It’s not even a drug …it’s sorcery. And the system... - @NunyaBidnass0_o on X
- 💊 I did Heroine for a decade, Never stole, robbed or hurt anyone. Quit because i couldn't afford it, Did methadone then suboxone and weaned myself off. never arrested, no criminal record, nothing. - @catizbak on X
Innovation
- 💊 I-BEACON focuses on helping providers prescribe and manage buprenorphine, a medication used to treat opioid use disorder (link) - @iowasnewsnow on X
- 🚑 Opioid crisis evolves with fentanyl & sedatives rising. Vermont’s PREVENT pilot empowers EMS to deliver buprenorphine prehospital, revolutionizing acute OUD care. Are you ready to lead this change? Read more: (link)... - @jemsconnect on X
Opposition Views
🏙 City Updates
- No recent City Updates found.
📚 Academic Research
- 🚐 How mobile units are shaping opioid treatment experiences: Insights from patients of mobile and traditional opioid treatment programs - Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment - 2026-08-24 - doi.org
- 🧪 Substance use treatment utilization and unmet demand among recently incarcerated syringe services program participants in Washington state - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-08-27 - doi.org
- 🩹 Supervised consumption service use and high-frequency public injecting among people who inject drugs in Toronto: A cross-sectional analysis (2018–2020) - International Journal of Drug Policy - 2026-08-24 - doi.org
- 🩺 Burnout and coping among professionals working in a drug consumption room: a qualitative study - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-08-25 - doi.org
- 🚑 Compassionate Overdose Response: Experiences of Overdose Survivors in New York City (Preprint) - 2026-08-25 - doi.org
- 🧑 Predictors of Early Retention in Peer Recovery Program for Justice-Involved Individuals With Opioid Use Disorder - Journal of Correctional Health Care - 2026-08-25 - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
Federal Agencies
- 🧪 [United States] [Final Rule] Schedules of Controlled Substances: Placement of Cipepofol in Schedule IV - federalregister.gov
- [🧪 [United States] ...Final Rule] Schedules of Controlled Substances: Temporary Placement of 5,6-Dichloro Brorphine, 5,6-Dichloro Desmethylchlorphine, N-Propionitrile... - federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/27/2026-17531/schedules-of-controlled-substances-temporary-placement-of-56-dichloro-brorphine-56-dichloro)
- 🧪 [United States] [Comment Request] Hydroxymitragynine Above a Specified Threshold in Schedule I; Extension of Comment Period - federalregister.gov
- 🧪 [United States] [Final Rule] Schedules of Controlled Substances: Temporary Placement of Mitragynine Pseudoindoxyl, MGM-15, and MGM-16 in Schedule I - federalregister.gov
City Ordinances
- 💊 [Jacksonville, FL] Resolution 2026-0594-A: ...County Resident, as a Member of the Opioid & Substance Use Disorder Grants Committee, as a Healthcare Professional... - jaxcityc.legistar.com
- 💊 [Jacksonville, FL] Resolution 2026-0608-A: ...County Resident, as a Member of the Opioid & Substance Use Disorder Grants Committee, as a Peer Specialist... - jaxcityc.legistar.com
💸 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
- 🫶 Mobilize Recovery - Register to volunteer for Narcan at Night in Las Vegas
- 🗓️ Faces & Voices of Recovery - Register for the 25th Anniversary Recovery Leadership Summit