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📰 News Media

• 💊 [Greenville, South Carolina] Will Hayden Panettiere's death uncover a supplier like Matthew Perry's 'Ketamine Queen'? - latimes.com
• 🌿 [Delaware] Analysis identifies sharply different health risks among medicinal, recreational and dual cannabis users - medicalxpress.com
• 🌿 [WI] Where Tom Tiffany, David Crowley stand on marijuana legalization, hemp - jsonline.com
• 🧠 [International] Psychedelics: Saving Lives and Transforming Health Care – Interview with Tomáš Páleníček, MD, PhD - drogriporter.hu
• 🗳️ [New York] New York’s nicotine pouch tax gets the math — and the policy — wrong - nydailynews.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💊 I ask this as a former drug addict who only quit out of necessity; the reasons why I used the drug in the first place haven't gone away. Addiction is far more complex than simply getting through withdrawal. Some... - @pyslexicdharmacist on Bluesky

Innovation

• 🧮 Run a simulation through all this data through every town, not every town but every major city that would’ve been affected by any of these industries closing and leaving, and then run a simultaneous simulation for... - @KsiZegulite on X
• 🗣️ “Building an Overdose Spike Response Plan” helps teams use ODMAP and communication strategies to strengthen partnerships with public health and safety agencies. Explore the free webinar here: - @SIM_MONTANA on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 First thing would be to get rid of the "harm reduction" support. It does the exact opposite. That shit is just plain evil. Addicts need real support like rehab, support groups, resources to help them get & stay clean. - @Zeebee17722471 on X

🏙 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

• 💉 From custody to abandonment: Conceptualising Aboriginal people's drug treatment discontinuation after release - International Journal of Drug Policy - 2026-09-10 - doi.org
• 💊 Assessment of methadone maintenance therapy implementation and perceived barriers to treatment participation - Medicine - 2026-09-11 - doi.org
• 💊 Timing of Initiation of Methadone Take-Home Dosing - JAMA Internal Medicine - 2026-09-08 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

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💸 Funding Click to expand

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 funding (rolling application; no deadlines) - 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

• 📣 Housing Works - Contact Congress to support Housing Works advocacy and harm reduction
• 🚶 Shatterproof - Register for the Boston Walk to End Addiction in Boston
• 🚶 Shatterproof - Register for the Boston Shatterproof Walk to End Addiction