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📰 News Media
- 🏙️ [Portland, Maine] Portland mayor calls for drug treatment sentencing option to curb downtown crime - pressherald.com
- 🍃 [Carroll County, Maryland] Carroll County becomes second Baltimore-area jurisdiction to warn kratom retailers - baltimoresun.com
- 🌿 [Berkshires, NY] Rensselaer Co. bans sale of kratom after last minute debate - wamc.org
- 🍪 [National] Cannabis edibles pose a growing danger to young kids. An ER doctor explains what to know - cnn.com
- 🪴 [MA] Kratom ban meets quiet compliance as retailers clear shelves - wbur.org
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
Innovation
- ⛽ if we were to legalise a particular opiate to be available in gas stations across the land forevermore, so that nobody has to risk taking fent ever (and nobody has to suffer the hell of withdrawals), which opiate... - @cube_flipper on X
- 🧪 In July, the White House drug policy office published something it never had before: a report on what’s actually dissolved in America’s sewage. The Office of National Drug Control Policy paid Biobot Analytics to... - @BunkPolice on X
Opposition Views
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🏙 City Updates
📧 - [San José, CA] - September 7, 2026 - A Message from Mayor Matt - newsletter
EXCERPT: "The mayor calls for strengthening California's mental health system and expanding treatment options to better address fentanyl addiction and reduce recidivism through Prop 36.
He advocates applying Prop 36's treatment-mandated felony approach and notes the need for more treatment beds and accountable rehabilitation before release.
He plans to send city and county leaders to San Diego to study how Prop 36 is used to compel more repeat offenders into treatment and to inform local reforms.
He emphasizes balancing public safety with opportunities for rehabilitation and reintegration for people who have served time.
The message highlights ongoing efforts in San José to improve behavioral health and criminal justice reforms as part of a broader public health approach."
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📚 Academic Research
- 💊 FORWARDS-2: study protocol for a double-blind randomised placebo-controlled feasibility and proof-of-concept trial to evaluate baclofen as an adjunct to support methadone detoxification - Pilot and Feasibility Studies - 2026-09-11 - doi.org
- 💉 The evolving epidemiology of opioid use disorder: polysubstance use, drug supply transformation, and policy implications - Frontiers in Public Health - 2026-09-09 - doi.org
- 💊 De-implementation of inequitable methadone policy and treatment: lessons learned from COVID-19 to support a more just methadone treatment system in the United States - Frontiers in Public Health - 2026-09-10 - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
State Laws
💸 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 - 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 - Health - Hearst Foundations (Health) — Year-Round, Rolling Grant Application (No Deadlines) - Minimum grant size is $100,000. - Deadline: Year-round, rolling application; there are no deadlines.
- 🏥 Hearst Foundations - Social Service - Hearst Foundations — Year-round, rolling application (Social Service priority areas) - Minimum grant size is $100,000. - Deadline: Year-round, rolling application; there are no deadlines.
- 🤝 Smart Family Fund - First time grants ranging from $25,000 to $100,000. - Deadline: Open pitch