President Trump’s plan aims to ‘clean up the streets’ — but could it mean warehousing addicts instead of helping them heal? A sharp take from NPR's Brian Mann on the tension between public safety and compassion. 🎥👇

After hearing a Steered Straight school assembly, students in Indiana willingly handed over 35 nicotine vapes, 3 THC vapes, and several edibles, no one forced them. They CHOSE to surrender them. Bring Steered Straight to your school steeredstraight.org

I called fentanyl, OxyContin’s grandchild at the Lvof.org DC rally and little did I know we were also filming a music video there that says as much 🚨☠️🚨 Matt Keegan & Benjamin Lerner – Fall In Line | Fentanyl Awareness Tribut... youtu.be/V9y2TMwklEg?si… via

Nick Long is the Founder & CEO of Sharpen Recovery, one of Texas’s largest recovery housing organizations. We discussed why recovery housing is vital — and how Sharpen’s community and faith-based approach to sobriety changes lives (1650 lives impacted. 85% stayed sober while at

Is faith an important part of recovery? Nick Long explains how his faith in Christ helped him recover from addiction, and how it impacts Sharpen Recovery's program for helping addicts.

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in el Fasher, after having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to a few who escaped youtu.be/i7fC-Jf2V2g?si…

From Tasers to a drug awareness magician: We tracked more than 10,500 ways opioid settlement cash was used last year, along with our partners Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health & Shatterproof. See how your community is using it here: kffhealthnews.org/news/article/o…

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Another article by Aneri Pattani on multiple ways opioid settlement funds have been misused as well as the largest data base on how funds have been spent. FED UP! calls for full transparency and best uses of funds. kffhealthnews.org/news/article/o… #opioidsettlementfunds

In Bluefield, a man rode his electric wheelchair to a pantry from almost a half a mile to ask for food. “We gave him five bags of food, which if you stretch it, could last a week, week and a half. And then what is he going to do afterwards?” mountainstatespotlight.org/2025/11/06/sna…

Michael DeLeon (Steered Straight) — who spent 12 years in state prison and halfway houses — now speaks to millions of young people about the dangers of drugs. One of his key messages is the importance of having a sense of purpose in life.

This month, for the first time, the food assistance program has come to a halt. About 275,000 West Virginians — 16% of the state’s population — are supported by SNAP benefits. buff.ly/1xLs26T

Michael DeLeon of Steered Straight talks to millions of kids about the dangers of drugs. Every time he speaks at a middle school, he walks away with vapes — often flavored and used to vape THC.

This is that case where the sheriff raided the editor’s house and the editor’s aging mother—who tried to stop them—died the next day.