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Traveling for the holidays? Naloxone is safe and approved to bring on all forms of transportation including planes!

Find naloxone and other harm reduction resources in your area: https://nextdistro.org/naloxone

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Take Naloxone for a Ride! via Overdose Prevention PHL

Message from SAMHSA: This season can be stressful— socially, financially, emotionally. Give the gift of support this season 🎁

Reach out; listen; treat people with respect, compassion & empathy; provide support; follow up. Find ways to support yourself and those around you: http://samhsa.gov/find-help

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Additional Resources:
• Learn more about Naloxone/Narcan from NIDA
• National Domestic Violence Hotline
• Holiday stress coping tips
• Find harm reduction resources near you
• Never Use Alone (National Overdose Prevention Lifeline) — available 24-hours a day, 7 days a week
• Brave App
• Test strips for drug checking

UPCOMING WEBINARS & EVENTS

CFSRE_Online_Symposium

📅 Dates: January 13 – 17, 2025
Time: 8:45 am – 12:00 pm ET (Daily)
📍 Location: Virtual

This year’s symposium, which features presentations by scientists from academia, government, and industry, will focus on knowledge, best practices, and advances in science that can help improve effectiveness and efficiency.

Learn more here.

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📅 Date: January 15, 2025
Time: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm ET
📍Location: Virtual

Learn more here.

Testing the Waters 8th Conference in Tacoma, WA

Testing the Waters 8 International Conference on Wastewater-based Epidemiology

📅 Dates: June 2 – 4, 2025, submissions close March 1, 2025

📍 Location: University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

Learn more here.

Call for submissions: Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) Issues of Substance 2025 Conference

2025 Issues of Substance Conference

📅 Dates: November 17 – 19, 2025, submissions close January 27, 2025

📍 Location: Halifax Convention Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Learn more here.

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The Weekly Briefing is a newsletter published each week by the National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS) Coordinating Center, which is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (U01DA051126) to the University of Florida (PI: Cottler, Co-Is: Goldberger, Nixon, Striley), New York University (Deputy Director: Palamar), and Florida Atlantic University (Co-I: Barenholtz). Any item may be reproduced provided the source is acknowledged.