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📰 News Media
- 🌿 [South Africa] No Progress After 2 Years of South African Cannabis Act - talkingdrugs.org
- 📱 [Rhode Island] RI rolls out app to help quit smoking and vaping - wpri.com
- 🚨 [San Antonio, Texas] Feds, local officials team up to fight drug overdose epidemic - expressnews.com
- 💊 [Ithaca, New York] Cornell rape case provokes questions about ketamine use on campus - cbsnews.com
- 🌿 [New York City, New York] Chelsea cannabis dispensary Poppin to host pop-up shop across from New York Comic Con this weekend - amny.com
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
Innovation
- 📱 People facing substance use often need a safe next step before they’re ready for treatment. Built Tetherkind to meet them there: free, privacy-conscious text support for encouragement, coping guidance, and... - @newonpolsia on X
- 🤖 400M+ people globally live with alcohol use disorders. Yet most digital recovery products still behave like tracking tools. The opportunity: Use AI to understand behavior → identify risk patterns → intervene... - @StartupForge07 on X
Opposition Views
🏙 City Updates
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📚 Academic Research
- 🩺 Telehealth Policy Interactions Across the Buprenorphine Care Cascade: A System Mapping Analysis - Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs - 2026-10-05 - doi.org
- 🩺 Infections and the Opioid Epidemic: Changing Epidemiology and Treatment Options - Drugs - 2026-10-04 - doi.org
- ⚖️ A qualitative analysis of philosophical and operational tensions in police diversion and deflection work - Contemporary Justice Review - 2026-10-04 - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
Federal Agencies
City Ordinances
💸 Funding
Current
- 🛠️ 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 Grants - Minimum grant size is $100,000; consult the Grant Recipients Database for recent award amounts to comparable organizations. - Deadline: Year-round rolling application; no deadlines.
- 🤝 Hearst Foundations - Social Service - Hearst Foundations Social Service Grants - Minimum grant size is $100,000; consult the Grant Recipients Database for recent awards to comparable organizations. - Deadline: Year-round rolling application; there are no deadlines.
📣 Activism
- 🎟️ Faces & Voices of Recovery - Register for Faces & Voices of Recovery’s virtual Recovery Leadership Summit
- 📨 Students for Sensible Drug Policy - Contact Congress to Protect Independent Research Funding from Political Interference
- 📝 National Alliance to End Homelessness - Submit a public comment urging HUD to reject ineffective homelessness funding strategies