Will the CDC Finally Abandon the Damaging Term “EVALI”?
Health economist Michael Pesko is asking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a ...
“Embarrassing”—Experts Slam EU’s Self-Congratulatory Smoking Report
A European Commission report on smoking and nicotine use is being condemned for unjustified ...
In Praise of Pleasure
Unabashed ravishment, whether from binge eating or drug use, makes those of us who ...
Prison Can’t Be the New Nursing Home If It Isn’t Wheelchair-Accessible
Ralph*, one of the men incarcerated with me at South Central Correctional Facility in ...
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.
Hopes of Shutting Rikers Grow Under Mamdani, as Deaths Continue
On March 25, 39-year-old Barry Cozart collapsed at Rikers, New York City’s notorious island jail complex. He’d been held on ...
Prison Suicide Watch Was Once a Staff Job. “Inmate Observers” Are Cheaper.
[Read Part 1 of this story here] Up until 2019, monitoring the people in the suicide watch cells at South ...
Heated Tobacco Products Shouldn’t Be a Harm Reduction Afterthought
Gary Sweeney may be in a minority among people who quit smoking in his community in County Donegal, Ireland, but ...
