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📰 News Media
- 🏥 [National, California] Presley Gerber’s death sparks questions about overdose, withdrawal and rehab safety - foxnews.com
- 🧠 [International] Study Finds Psychedelic Decriminalisation Linked to Improved Wellbeing and Reduced Harm - talkingdrugs.org
- 💼 [National] 8 SUD, Addiction Treatment Executives to Watch - bhbusiness.com
- 🏛️ [Fort Worth, TX] Fact Check: Where do Texas Senate District 9 candidates stand on THC policy? - star-telegram.com
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
Innovation
- 🧪 San Francisco learned a new synthetic opioid had reached the city from a 16-year-old's autopsy. His mother gave him two doses of Narcan and assumed fentanyl. The coroner's report named cychlorphine, roughly 10 times... - @BunkPolice on X
- 🚨 A ban without detection and enforcement changes little. This drug does not show on fentanyl test strips. The first task is a test that works, then fast alerts to hospitals and police. - @therawlogs on X
Opposition Views
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🏙 City Updates
📧 - [Los Angeles, CA] - September 17, 2026 - LA County Close-Up - newsletter
EXCERPT: "LA County Close-Up highlights overdose prevention efforts and harm reduction successes at Hollenbeck Park in Boyle Heights.
New County Channel stories and online updates showcase harm reduction services and overdose prevention efforts available in the county.
LA County is hosting community listening sessions in East Los Angeles to discuss the renaming of Cesar Chavez streets and related civic artwork.
September is Disaster Preparedness Month, with resources at [ready.lacounty.gov](https://ready.lacounty.gov/) to help residents prepare for emergencies."
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📚 Academic Research
- 🛒 Harm reduction vending machines as safer supply-supporting infrastructure - Frontiers in Psychiatry - 2026-09-22 - doi.org
- 🏠 Harm Reduction Vending Machines in Supportive Housing for Veterans - JAMA Network Open - 2026-09-21 - doi.org
- 🚓 Policing interactions and outcomes under shifting decriminalization policies in British Columbia: insights from people who use drugs - Policing & Society - 2026-09-20 - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
State Laws
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
- NEW🛠️ Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA FY 2026 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (COSSUP) Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) - Deadline: Nov 2, 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 (Application via Grants Portal; year-round rolling) - Minimum grant size is $100,000. - Deadline: Year-round, rolling application; there are no deadlines.
- 📝 Hearst Foundations - Social Service - Hearst Foundations — Social Service (General FAQ & rolling application) - Minimum grant size is $100,000. (Other sizes: see Grant Recipients Database.) - Deadline: Year-round, rolling application; there are no deadlines.
- 🤝 Smart Family Fund - Angel Philanthropy (First-Time Grants) - $25,000 to $100,000 (first time grants) - Deadline: Open pitch