Twice-Weekly Rollup

Featuring content from daily briefings generated September 15, 2026 through September 17, 2026.

Disclaimer: this software uses AI to aggregate and filter content. Please double-check sources before putting info to action.

📰 News Media Click to expand

• ⚖️ [National] Campaign fighting proposition that would increase penalties for fentanyl crimes - kdvr.com
• 💉 [National] Fiji declares HIV emergency. One in 60 people now have the virus as drug crisis fuels outbreak - cnn.com
• 🤖 [National] Searching for a New Way to Search: How AI is Rewiring SUD Marketing - bhbusiness.com
• 🏥 [National] Troubled Addiction Treatment Provider Aware Recovery Care Acquired by Renew Health + Recovery - bhbusiness.com
• 👨 [National] Children Deserve Recovery Too - recoveryreview.blog
• 🤖 [San Diego, CA] Former Discovery Behavioral CEO Launches New Addiction Treatment Venture - bhbusiness.com
• 💊 [National] House Advances Tick Disease Prevention and Xylazine Bills - news.bgov.com
• 💊 [National, Michigan] Lethal mix of alcohol, kratom killed adult entertainer Christian Styles - nydailynews.com
• 🌿 [Tempe/Scottsdale, AZ] Marijuana dispensary chain bans products from troubled AZ testing labs - azcentral.com
• 💊 [Aurora, Illinois] Kane County seeing fewer fatal opioid overdoses, as county prevention efforts continue - chicagotribune.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 🛟 We need more people in recovery, who have lived experience, involved in mental health recovery. Like addiction or eating disorder recovery. The old hands take the new hands. Not to lead or heal, but be a guiding... - @elemjay on Bluesky

Innovation

• 🏥 Fewer than 5 percent of jails and prisons offer all three medications for opioid use disorder — that gap is a policy choice. 60.7 percent of counties have no buprenorphine prescriber at all. Full episode:... - @YamiciaC on X
• 🚑 What if addiction treatment started in the ambulance? A new multisite study is testing EMS-initiated buprenorphine and whether patients connect to ongoing treatment afterward. An overdose response can be more than a... - @ActionForOD on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Agreed, but there is a wide gap between “round them up” and making it extremely easy to be a homeless drug addict (harm reduction, housing first etc). It should be extremely easy to get into treatment, not to... - @jorktank on X

🏙 City Updates

• No recent City Updates found.

📚 Academic Research Click to expand

• 💊 From policy to practice: overcoming barriers to harm reduction vending machine deployment - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-09-16 - doi.org
• 🍺 Indigenous Unruly Bodies: Managed Alcohol Programs, Cultural Adaptation, Care, and Control - Contemporary Drug Problems - 2026-09-16 - doi.org
• 🧪 Social-ecological factors shape preferences for and receipt of medications to treat opioid use disorder in the post-incarceration period - SSM - Mental Health - 2026-09-11 - doi.org
• 🩺 How are substance use disorder treatment providers integrating harm reduction approaches into practice? - 2026-09-15 - doi.org
• 💉 Mechanisms of overdose from unintentional fentanyl use when intending to use stimulants: a qualitative study of people who use stimulants and avoid opioids - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-09-16 - doi.org
• 💉 Recent fentanyl use among syringe service program clients who use opioids: Implications for overdose prevention - Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions - 2026-09-14 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

City Ordinances

• 🏙️ [Nashville, TN] Resolution RS2026-2283: ...Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Metropolitan Nashville Police Department... - nashville.legistar.com

💸 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 - Social Service - Hearst Foundations — Social Service (FAQ; year-round rolling applications) - Minimum grant size is $100,000. - Deadline: No deadlines: year-round, rolling application.
• NEW🧠 APA Foundation - Helping Hands Grants - Helping Hands Grants | APA Foundation - Up to $5,000 - Deadline: May 1 (applications must be submitted by May 1)
• 💡 Smart Family Fund - First-time grants ranging from $25,000 to $100,000. - Deadline: Open pitch

📣 Activism

• ✉️ National Council for Mental Wellbeing - Send a letter to your Representative supporting the 988 Implementation Act
• 🗓️ Mobilize Recovery - RSVP for two free virtual advocacy and recovery events this week