Featuring content from daily briefings generated September 25, 2026 through September 28, 2026.
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📰 News Media
- 🌿 [National, New York] After the Drug Laws - nytimes.com
- 🌿 [National, CO] Contaminated marijuana vapes sold at over 400 Colorado stores, health officials warn - denverpost.com
- 💊 [National] States Are Increasing Access to Methadone Clinics - pew.org
- 🏠 [National] The need for recovery capital - reginalabelle.substack.com
- 🧪 [Chicago, Illinois] With potential federal 7-OH ban looming, Illinois providers prepare for influx of patients seeking treatment - chicagotribune.com
- 🌿 [Detroit, Michigan] 2 Ole Miss students dead, kratom suspected. Is it legal in Michigan? - freep.com
- 🧪 [National, Colorado] Colorado Marijuana Company Voluntarily Recalls Dozens of Contaminated Products Amid State Regulatory Delays - propublica.org
- 🌿 [Oxford, MS] Deaths of students at the University of Mississippi cast spotlight on kratom - baltimoresun.com
- 💉 [National] HRSA Awards Nearly $90 Million to Expand Addiction Treatment and Recovery Services in Rural Communities - hrsa.gov
- 🏥 [Oklahoma City, Oklahoma] With 100 days left, OK County shifts ARPA funds to new Behavioral Care Center - oklahoman.com
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
Innovation
- 🚐 A mobile wellness outreach van launched in Brooklyn to deliver recovery support, substance use education, Narcan training, harm reduction, and referrals directly to overdose-affected neighborhoods. - @portlandbriefly on Bluesky
- 🧪 Cincinnati is placing free naloxone and fentanyl test strips at 24 locations where overdoses happen most often. Researchers will compare those sites with 12 other hotspots to see whether bringing supplies directly... - @BunkPolice on X
Opposition Views
- 🚫 Yes, absolutely. Remove SIS and free drug supply and enforce treatment, detox, rehab centers, fully equipped and staffed with doctors, nurses clinicians, educators, and temporary housing with the promise of... - @jboorne1 on X
- 🚫 Supply - criminal Possession - practically not criminal Consumption- socially tolerated Addiction - victim Death - victim, the tip of the problem: less death comes from fewer addicts comes from fewer consumers comes... - @tomintoultory on X
🏙 City Updates
📚 Academic Research
- 💉 Characteristics of certified community behavioral health clinics that offer long-acting injectable medications for opioid use disorders - BMC Health Services Research - 2026-09-25 - doi.org
- 💉 Lessons Learned From Implementation of a Jail-Based Naloxone Vending Machine - Journal of Correctional Health Care - 2026-09-26 - doi.org
- 🚑 Meeting people where they are, whenever they are here: the implementation of harm reduction programs in two U.S. emergency departments - International Journal of Emergency Medicine - 2026-09-25 - doi.org
- 💊 Appropriate and Acceptable? A Mixed Methods Study of a “Smart” Harm Reduction Vending Machine in Pennsylvania - Contemporary Drug Problems - 2026-09-25 - doi.org
- 🫀 Opioid overdose risk and resilience among older Black men in Chicago: findings from community-based focus groups - BMC Public Health - 2026-09-25 - doi.org
- 🧠 System dynamics and related modeling of opioid use and interventions: a scoping review - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-09-24 - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
- No law and policy updates in this rollup window.
💸 Funding
Current
- 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
- Deadline Approaching🔬 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
- 🛠️ 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 - 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
- 🤝 Open Society Foundations - Leadership in Government Fellowship program - Deadline: rolling
📣 Activism
- 📝 National Harm Reduction Coalition - Register for NHRC Lighthouse Centering Care Conference in New York
- 🗓️ National Harm Reduction Coalition - Register for NHRC’s Centering Care Conference in New York City