The Drug War Myths People Still Believe
Fentanyl Is in Everything Around 2013, fentanyl started percolating in the United States ...
MOTAA 2.0 Is Not Real Methadone Reform
The Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act (MOTAA) is back. An updated version was reintroduced ...
Finding Optimism in the Tobacco Harm Reduction Maelstrom
In my worst moments, reporting on the tobacco harm reduction space, as I’ve been ...
We Need to Focus on Violence Against Women Who Use Drugs
Public attention to violence against women tends to surge in response to major events ...
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.

A Harm Reduction Guide to Better Booty-Bumping Kits
Every drug user I talk to regularly has heard my case for putting drugs up your butt. It’s a conversation ...

“Moral Bankruptcy” as WHO Opts to Maintain Global Coca Prohibition
The World Health Organization had a historic opportunity to ease a strict global ban on the coca leaf—a prohibition, campaigners ...

How I Use Short-Tip Needles: A Harm Reduction Guide
[This article contains photographs and descriptions of injecting.] I‘ve been using opioids for 20 years, but injecting didn’t become ...

“No Judgment”—Ten Personal Stories of Alcohol Harm Reduction
The need for harm reduction around alcohol use is both pressing and obvious. Yet too often—in a field dominated on ...

There Are Multiple Routes to Prisoner Naloxone Access. These Are the Best.
[Read Part 1 of this series here] So far only one prison in the United States has an Overdose Education ...

There Are Multiple Routes to Prisoner Naloxone Access. These Are the Best.
[Read Part 1 of this series here] So far only one prison in the United States has an Overdose Education ...

There Are Multiple Routes to Prisoner Naloxone Access. These Are the Best.
[Read Part 1 of this series here] So far only one prison in the United States has an Overdose Education ...
























