Featuring content from daily briefings generated September 8, 2026 through September 10, 2026.
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📰 News Media
- 🛟 [National] Adding some key considerations to simple DSM-5-TR criteria counts - recoveryreview.blog
- 🏛️ [Seattle, Washington] Drugs and Disorder, by the Numbers - wsj.com
- 🌿 [National, MA] Mass. cannabis sector hits $10 billion in sales ahead of repeal vote - wbur.org
- 🏥 [National] When Treatment Centers Become Assembly Lines - recoveryreview.blog
- 🌿 [National, Minnesota] 7-OH is a popular and dangerous drug. Is a ban the answer? - minnpost.com
- 🏥 [San Jose, CA] After years of lagging reforms, new agreement sets deadlines for Santa Clara County jail care - mercurynews.com
- 🩺 [National] Distinct characteristics identified for patients with rheumatoid conditions, opioid use disorder - medicalxpress.com
- 🏥 [National, OR] Oregon prison electronic tablets coming later this year - oregonlive.com
- 🏥 [Philadelphia, PA] Penn Medicine nurse recognized for helping people in addiction recovery navigate medical challenges - phillyvoice.com
- ⚠️ [upstate New York, NY] Four NY kids killed in grandma, mom’s murder-suicide were poisoned with allergy meds, kratom: report - nypost.com
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
- 💬 Damn I use to be homeless on the streets of Seattle addicted to fentanyl and meth and it never got this bad. Like there’d be big groups of us getting high but not 30 of us all folded over that’s wild. so grateful... - @cokelore89 on X
- 🛟 The three are obviously all monsters, surely though there are many many better reasons to mock and/or attack Hesgeth and RFK jr than their history of addiction? As a former heroin addict obviously I'm biased and i... - @jazhowe1968 on Bluesky
Innovation
- 🧪 Overdose Prevention Tools: • Carry Naloxone • Test your dope - Fentanyl and Xylazine Test Strips • Look for the signs! • Using alone … call the “Never Use Alone” hotline (877) 696-1996 Message me if need more... - @Dancruz__16 on X
- 🤖 We helped a B2C app blow up on ChatGPT rankings. - $1,500/day in revenue - 910K impressions, from zero - All in 6 months, only using LLM SEO it’s an addiction recovery app with over a million users Their problem:... - @denohawari on X
Opposition Views
- 🚫 Forget that guy. Think of all the people you see every day that can't take care of themselves due to mental illness/addiction. In the Bay Area "harm reduction" orgs pass out supplies so people can do fentanyl, which... - @jazzscribe on X
- 🚫 Sure you've reduced homelessness ... by putting addicts in housing where they proceed to destroy it. Why not get them the actual treatment they need? And stop with the harm reduction...needles & crack pipes only... - @Zeebee17722471 on X
🏙 City Updates
- No recent City Updates found.
📚 Academic Research
- 🚰 Multiyear Wastewater Monitoring of High-Risk Substances Surrounding an Annual Electronic Dance Music Festival, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2023-2025: Surveillance Study - JMIR Public Health and Surveillance - 2026-09-08 - doi.org
- 💊 Pharmacist-Led Initiative to Increase Naloxone Prescribing for Patients on High-Dose Opioids in a General Internal Medicine Clinic - The Lahey Journal - 2026-09-10 - doi.org
- 💉 Toxicological and Clinical Characteristics of Fatal Cases in the Emerging Drugs Network of Australia—Victoria ( EDNAV ) Clinical Registry 2020–2025 - Emergency Medicine Australasia - 2026-09-09 - doi.org
- 🏥 Article 9: Measuring Violence and Harm Reduction in Correctional Institutions: Toward a Public Health Surveillance Model - Advancing Corrections Journal - 2026-09-05 - doi.org
- 📱 Engaging veterans in the development of mobile health interventions to support medication treatment for opioid use disorder - Frontiers in Digital Health - 2026-09-04 - doi.org
- 💉 Naloxone administration and toxicity signs and symptoms: An observational study using Canadian death investigation data - 2026-09-07 - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
City Ordinances
💸 Funding
Current
- Deadline Approaching💊 Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA FY 2026 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Site-Based Program - Deadline: Sep 24, 2026
- Deadline Approaching🔬 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
- 🧠 Elevance Health Foundation - Behavioral Health (Grant Applications) - Grant ranges are open; funding levels determined based on factors including need and the plan presented. Generally, grants last from one to three years. - Deadline: Jan 31, 2027
- 🔬 National Institutes of Health - Exploratory Clinical Neuroscience Research on Substance Use Disorders (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Optional) - Deadline: Jun 16, 2028
- 🔬 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
- 🚶 Shatterproof - Register for the Boston Shatterproof Walk to End Addiction
- 💙 Shatterproof - Take the Teal Heart Pledge to reduce addiction stigma