Featuring content from daily briefings generated October 23, 2026 through October 26, 2026.
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📰 News Media
- 💊 [Wilmington, MA] National Drug Take Back Day: Mass. residents dispose of old medications - boston25news.com
- 🌿 [National] Popular cannabis sleep gummies may have a hidden dark side - sciencedaily.com
- 🚭 [National] Selena Gomez's vaping admission highlights hidden health risks doctors say millions face daily - foxnews.com
- 🏥 [Canada] Substance use driving increases in emergency department visits, hospitalizations for young mothers - medicalxpress.com
- 🧠 [National] The Trump administration moves to treat millions of mentally ill veterans with psychedelics - politico.com
- ⚖️ [Ontario] Accept treatment or lose access: Ontario’s new opioid rules undermine harm reduction - reason.org
- ⚠️ [Ohio] Cychlorphine detected in Ohio. How can Ohio State students stay safe? - thelantern.com
- ❓ [National] Related Posts - lifestylesmagazine.com
- ☠️ [California] Seasonal viruses on the move, and a hidden overdose threat - yourlocalepidemiologistca.substack.com
- 🩺 [Providence, RI] Two years after opening, reporters tour Project Weber/RENEW’s Overdose Prevention Center - steveahlquist.substack.com
🗣️ Social Pulse
Lived/Living Experience
- 🛟 I don’t speak much about the journey I have been on for the last 12 months But today is a massive Milestone for me… I battled addiction issues for years but today I celebrate my first birthday milestone across 3... - @ombudtjugotva on Bluesky
- 🧠 Respect for going back and seeing how far you've come. Xanax was part of my story too, though much shorter than my opioid and crack addiction. I took em on and off, mostly when I detoxed from opioids, and I'd stop... - @kaiba755 on X
Innovation
- 💊 Safer-Supply Opioid Machines (MySafe) What they do: Dispense prescribed pharmaceutical-grade hydromorphone (Dilaudid) pills to screened adults. How they work: Users access the machine via a biometric palm-scan to... - @wapimaskwa69 on X
- 💻 Having built and sold four companies, I know what it takes for a company to succeed. But working in health care forced me to rethink what the "product" really means. In tech, the product is the thing you ship. In... - @ryanlissack on X
Opposition Views
- 🚫 Instead of trying to stop the organized drug dealers and drug use, San Francisco focused on this message: "Do it with friends." That's why harm reduction has taken a back seat to recovery as a policy. Yet, state law... - @Twolfrecovery on X
- 🚫 “Harm reduction” encourages drug use bc it keeps homeless in the system where NGOs can profit off them - @TonyJen48667368 on X
🏙 City Updates
- No recent City Updates found.
📚 Academic Research
- 💊 Chemsex and its implications for human immunodeficiency virus risk, testing, and prevention among men who have sex with men in Hong Kong - Advances in Drug and Alcohol Research - 2026-10-22 - doi.org
- 🚑 Community Paramedics Addressing the Evolving Opioid Crisis: A Case Series Addressing the Kratom Derivatives 7-Hydroxymitragynine and MGM-15 - Prehospital Emergency Care - 2026-10-22 - doi.org
- 🚭 Editorial: Adolescent smoking, alcohol consumption and psychoactive substance misuse in low-middle income countries - Frontiers in Public Health - 2026-10-21 - doi.org
- ☠️ Case Report: Mislabeling of an online “alprazolam triazolobenzophenone” pill leads to severe intoxication with the novel synthetic opioid cychlorphine - Frontiers in Toxicology - 2026-10-20 - doi.org
- 🌿 Centering Patient Health Over Legal Status: A Student-Driven Cannabis Risk Stratification Framework for Undergraduate Medical Education - Substance Use & Addiction Journal - 2026-10-20 - doi.org
- 🛟 Initiatives to Prevent Fatal Drug Overdose Mortality After Incarceration - Substance Use & Addiction Journal - 2026-10-24 - doi.org
⚖️ Law & Policy
- No law and policy updates in this rollup window.
💸 Funding
Current
- Deadline Approaching🛠️ Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA FY 2026 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (COSSUP) Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) - Deadline: Nov 2, 2026
- 🧒 Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention - OJJDP FY 2026 Mentoring for Youth Impacted by Opioids and Other Substance Use - Deadline: Nov 16, 2026
- 🧒 Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention - OJJDP FY 2026 Opioid Affected Youth Initiative - Deadline: Nov 16, 2026
- 🔬 National Institutes of Health - HEAL Initiative: Integrative Management of Chronic Pain and OUD for Whole Recovery (IMPOWR): Research Centers (RM1 Clinical Trial Required) - Deadline: Jan 26, 2027
- 🔬 National Institutes of Health - HEAL Initiative: Integrative Management of chronic Pain and OUD for Whole Recovery (IMPOWR) - Building Engagement, Assistance, Capacity, Outreach, and Networks (BEACON) Center (U2C Clinical Trial Not Allowed) - Deadline: Jan 26, 2027
- 🔬 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
- 🔬 National Institutes of Health - Pilot and Feasibility Studies in Preparation for Substance Use and HIV Prevention Intervention and Services Research Trials (R34 Clinical Trial Optional) - Deadline: Jul 16, 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.