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📰 News Media

• 💊 [National] Wild Trump-shaped ecstasy pills impose ‘Red Alert’ lethal consumption threat, Dutch drug agency says - nypost.com
• 🚑 [Burlington, VT] Along the banks of Lake Champlain, who’s harming whom? - bostonglobe.com
• 💊 [National] She was a pain specialist to top athletes. Her opioid prescribing alarmed the DEA - baltimoresun.com
• ⚖️ [National] Walmart to Pay $50 Million to Settle Opioid Lawsuit, U.S. Says - nytimes.com
• ⚖️ [Manchester, NH] At Dismas Home, ‘another chance’ at recovery through the drug court system - concordmonitor.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 🧠 I was addicted to oxycodone earlier in college. I felt like I was a zombie. I didn’t feel anything and my life had this greyish white shader to it. I wasn’t eating much, I would sometimes wake up and immediately... - @wasdhjklxyz on X

Innovation

• 🩹 SciTechDaily: This Tiny Wearable Patch Could Automatically Reverse a Fentanyl Overdose (link) - @xalfeed on X
• 🏪 The new machines aim to make naloxone more readily available. {og:title} {article:title} (link) - @hartfordcourant on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Marketed as the “Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act” > Responsible for 20% of the growth in homelessness > Increased drug use, overdoses, ER visits > 20% reduction in people receiving drug treatment - @skepticaliblog on X

🏙 City Updates

• 📧 - [Milwaukee, WI] - August 28, 2026 - New MHD Blog Post: When Naloxone Is Within Reach, Lives Can Be Saved - newsletter

  EXCERPT: "- Ahead of International Overdose Awareness Day on August 31, Milwaukee's Health Department published a new blog post on naloxone access: [When Naloxone Is Within Reach, Lives Can Be Saved](https://city.milwaukee.gov/health/blog/When-Naloxone-Is-Within-Reach-Lives-Can-Be-Saved).
  - This year MHD has distributed more than 8,000 naloxone kits across the community, including at a St. Vincent de Paul Milwaukee meal site where naloxone helped save a life.
  - The post highlights partnerships such as RISE Drug Free MKE working to make naloxone more accessible and reduce fatal overdoses in Milwaukee.
  - International Overdose Awareness Day events include a 10 a.m. press conference at Milwaukee City Hall and activities from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Veterans Park and the lakefront, under the theme 'You Are Still Needed'."
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📚 Academic Research

• 🍸 “I simply see it as our responsibility in the club business”: Key Stakeholder Perspectives on Setting-Based Harm Reduction Structures in Night Clubs in Berlin - Journal of Prevention - 2026-08-28 - doi.org
• 💊 Buprenorphine Dispensed by Pharmacies and Administered in Emergency Departments in Urban and Rural Areas — United States, 2019–2025 - MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - 2026-08-27 - doi.org
• 💊 Balancing Relapse Risk and Agency in Buprenorphine-naloxone Treatment: A Qualitative Needs Assessment to Inform Patient-Centered Care - 2026-08-23 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

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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
• NEWDeadline Approaching🩺 Centers for Disease Control-GHC - Ending HIV and TB as public health threats through an accelerated and sustained comprehensive response in India - Deadline: Sep 16, 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 - Health - Hearst Foundations (Health) - Year-Round Grant Applications (No Deadlines) - Minimum grant size is $100,000. - Deadline: Year-round, rolling application; there are no deadlines.
• 🤝 Hearst Foundations - Social Service - Hearst Foundations (HearstFDN) — Social Service funding (rolling applications) - Minimum grant size is $100,000. - Deadline: Year-round, rolling application; there are no deadlines.
• 🤝 Smart Family Fund - First time grants range from $25,000 to $100,000. - Deadline: Open pitch

📣 Activism

• 📣 National Harm Reduction Coalition - Contact officials to stop House HIV funding cuts
• 🗓️ Faces & Voices of Recovery - Register for the 25th Anniversary Recovery Leadership Summit
• 🫶 Mobilize Recovery - Register to volunteer for Narcan at Night in Las Vegas