Festival Drug Checking Services Still Too Often Sidelined
It’s a scorching July day in British Columbia, at Bass Coast festival, and there ...
For Black and Brown Communities, the Overdose Crisis Is Still Escalating
This International Overdose Awareness Day, VOCAL-US state chapters—VOCAL-NY, VOCAL-TX and VOCAL-KY—are taking direct action ...
In Defense of Contraband Cell Phones
As a transgender woman incarcerated in a men’s prison system, each day was a ...
“The Forgotten Substance”—Harm Reduction Vaping Groups in Portugal
When more people in harm reduction are considering how to integrate tobacco harm reduction ...
In “It Just Starts All Over Again,”Filter interviews patients and staff at a methadone clinic, as well as drug policy expert Deborah Smalls. Why can’t access to this lifesaving medication be improved?.
Filter speaks with harm reduction activists in the Philippines, who work in the face of President Duterte’s murderous drug war.
Participants in a vaping group at Saint Ann’s Corner of Harm Reduction, a pioneering syringe services provider in New York, describe their experiences of switching from cigarettes.
Inside a Busy Safe Consumption Site in Portugal
[The following are the words of Maria Luísa Salazar, one of the organizers of a safe consumption space in Lisbon, ...
The Harm Reduction Role of High-Nicotine Vaping
Many people who quit cigarettes say that vaping at higher nicotine levels was key to their ability to make the ...