Political Rhetoric and Policing: Can We Break the Vicious Circle?
Our society’s emphasis on drug-law enforcement and the stigmatization and punishment of people who ...
Booty-Bumping Meth: Harm Reduction for an Under-Discussed Practice
Stacy Cobine, a peer worker at a harm reduction center in Northern California, works ...
The Rise and Fall of Drug-User Activism in Thailand
The atmosphere at the Rattanakosin Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, was electric. It was the ...
The Ethical Quagmire of Conducting Drug Trials With Incarcerated People
Using human beings as “guinea pigs” for unethical experiments becomes so much easier when ...
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.
“Nicotine Hunger,” an original Filter video, features Louise Ross, a pioneering British harm reductionist whose work includes introducing vaping to smokers in a mental health hospital.

The Ecuadorian Fishermen Snatched Away by US Drug Warriors
After a flood wiped out Bexy Guerrero Salmiento’s home in 2013, her husband disappeared. Just days earlier, Manuel, Bexy and ...

Drug Research Ignores Stable or Pleasurable Use—And That’s a Problem
In the United States and beyond, drug research ignores most people who use drugs. While the large majority of people ...