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📰 News Media
- 💉 [New Jersey] NJ towns ‘wasted’ $2.3M of opioid settlement on lavish purchases: ‘people are dying because of this’ - nypost.com
- 🌿 [Massachusetts] As Mass. cracks down on kratom, advocates say the ban is more dangerous than certain forms of the drug - bostonglobe.com
- 💊 [Charlotte, NC] Takeaways about pain specialist to star athletes accused of writing illegal opioid scripts - apnews.com
- 🚓 [National] Police Are Spending Opioid Settlement Funds on Flock Cameras - motherjones.com
- 💉 [New York, NY] Op-Ed | In the knick of time, you can save a life with Naloxone - amny.com
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
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Innovation
- 🎯 Moving from passive collection to active intervention is the actual game changer. A dashboard just gives you awareness, but an agent that nudges you at the exact moment your recovery drops turns data into actual... - @Emegothefirst on X
- 🛟 @Super_Powers_AI Hey Super, build a p5.js interactive Narcan (naloxone) nasal spray administration trainer that teaches the 5-step opioid overdose response protocol through a guided practice scenario. (link) The... - @RohanArun on X
Opposition Views
🏙 City Updates
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📚 Academic Research
- 🧪 Suggestions from Clinicians and Harm Reduction Specialists to Mitigate the Impact of Xylazine on People Who Use Opioids - Substance Use & Misuse - 2026-08-25 - doi.org
- 💉 Toward policy punctuation: a content analysis of harm reduction framing in fentanyl test strip policy in texas - Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions - 2026-08-24 - doi.org
- 💊 Developing the Dopamine D3 Receptor (D3R) Antagonist, ( R )‐VK4‐116, as a Non‐Opioid Medication for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder - Medicinal Research Reviews - 2026-08-25 - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
Federal Agencies
💸 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
- 🔬 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 (HearstFDN) — Social Service Funding (year-round rolling applications via Grants Portal) - Minimum grant size is $100,000. - Deadline: Year-round, rolling application; there are no deadlines.
- 🩺 Hearst Foundations - Health - Hearst Foundations Health – Year-round, Rolling Application (FAQ-guided program/endowment grant requests) - Minimum grant size is $100,000. - Deadline: Year-round, rolling application; there are no deadlines.