Portland Changes “Nuisance Property” Code, a Crackdown on Motel Sex Work
Emi Koyama is the founder of Seattle-based Coalition for Rights & Safety for People ...
Media Fights for Access to Executions, But Not the Rest of the Prison System
In April, the Tennessee Supreme Court temporarily blocked a ruling that would allow journalists ...
FDA Finally Authorizes Fruit-Flavored Vapes. Here’s What It Took.
On May 5, the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) did something it has ...
Lifers Fall Through the Cracks of the Prison Security Classification System
The Georgia Department of Corrections assigns every person in its custody a security classification: ...
Former clinic director Janet Urdahl describes the system’s culture of cruetly, power imbalance and profit motives.
Filter sits down with Dr. Marewa Glover, to discuss New Zealand’s successful adoption of tobacco harm reduction.
Participants in a vaping group, held at a pioneering New York syringe service program, describe their experiences of switching from cigarettes.
Louisiana “Homelessness Court” Would Offer Treatment, Forced Labor
On April 28, a Louisiana Senate committee advanced a homelessness criminalization bill brightly titled “Streets to Success.” The legislation would ...
New Hub Platforms Lived Experiences of Tobacco Harm Reduction
People with lived experience of using safer nicotine products for harm reduction take center stage on a new platform that ...
Sweden Is Now the World’s First “Smoke-Free” Country
Sweden has become the world’s first “smoke-free” country, with an astonishingly low daily smoking rate of just 3.7 percent—well below ...
