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📰 News Media

• 📊 [Erie, PA] Erie wastewater data shows rise in illicit drug usage - yahoo.com
• 🏥 [Maine] Some addiction treatment services in Maine aren’t financially sustainable, provider warns - pressherald.com
• ⚖️ Submission to SR on Torture- Practical measures to reduce and prevent prison overcrowding - Harm Reduction International - hri.global
• 🧠 [National] Team publishes largest-ever dataset on real-world psychedelic support interactions - medicalxpress.com
• 🚨 [Fredericton, New Brunswick] N.B. police issue public safety alert over suspected drug overdose spike in capital - ca.news.yahoo.com

🗣️ Social Pulse

Lived/Living Experience

• 💬 They have treated me like an unsaveable monster at numerous rehabs, sober houses, therapists, and psychiatrists bc i was an opioid user with borderline personality disorder - @phantomtransy on X

Innovation

• 🤖 Using agentic AI in SUD treatment. Developing programs that can help alert family of cash withdrawals, location monitoring (old drug pickup locations), text monitoring, communication with addictionologist etc. We... - @WestermanRobbie on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Long term secure residential programs and expansion of self harm laws is the only way to start to address drug addiction and street life. Serious and brutally truthful education from a very young age. Serious long... - @IBAConservative on X

🏙 City Updates

• 📧 - [Louisville, KY] - October 30, 2026 - Mayor Greenberg and LMPHW announce youth-driven “Louder Than Smoke” anti-vaping campaign - newsletter

  EXCERPT: "Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg and the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness launch the Louder Than Smoke youth-focused anti-vaping campaign.
  The campaign connects with teens online using social media, transit advertising, and a dedicated website to share information about vaping risks and nicotine addiction.
  Campaign messaging encourages informed decisions and rejects misleading portrayals of vaping as harmless.
  The campaign's website provides facts for youth and parents and can be accessed at [Louder Than Smoke](https://www.louderthansmoke.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery).
  Transit advertising features messages such as 'Vaping Is So Not Hot' and 'Clear the Air. Know the Facts' with QR codes directing people to educational resources."
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📚 Academic Research

• 💧 Volumetric dilution nasal spray as a harm reduction strategy for intranasal psychoactive substance use: a practical framework and rationale - Harm Reduction Journal - 2026-10-30 - doi.org
• 🏥 Substance Use Disorder Treatment in the United States and Switzerland’s Four-Pillar Addiction Model - Cureus - 2026-10-28 - doi.org
• 🧠 Fifty years at the addiction bench and bedside: from withdrawal syndromes to adaptive brain states - Frontiers in Public Health - 2026-10-27 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

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💸 Funding Click to expand

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
• Deadline Approaching🧒 Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention - OJJDP FY 2026 Mentoring for Youth Impacted by Opioids and Other Substance Use - Deadline: Nov 16, 2026
• Deadline Approaching🧒 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) - Building Engagement, Assistance, Capacity, Outreach, and Networks (BEACON) Center (U2C Clinical Trial Not Allowed) - Deadline: Jan 26, 2027
• 🔬 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 - 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 - Health - Hearst Foundations Health — General Grant Application - Minimum grant size is $100,000; applicants are directed to the Grant Recipients Database for recent comparable grant amounts. - Deadline: Year-round, rolling application; there are no deadlines.

Future

• NEW🌱 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Centering Compassion to Create Community and Government Systems that Promote Wellbeing for All - Expected: Dec 9, 2026
• 🧠 Elevance Health Foundation - Behavioral Health - Grant ranges are open; funding levels are determined based on several factors, including the need and the plan presented to address it. - Expected: Jan 1, 2027

📣 Activism

• 📚 Shatterproof - Register for Shatterproof’s November 12 Webinar on Kratom Policy and Treatment
• 🎟️ National Harm Reduction Coalition - Attend NHRC’s 30th Anniversary Fundraiser in Brooklyn, New York
• 📣 Johnny’s Ambassadors - Join Johnny’s Ambassadors to Support Cannabis Education and Policy Efforts