IMF Publishes Call for Risk-Proportionate Nicotine Taxation
The International Monetary Fund has published a call for risk-proportionate taxation of nicotine products—in ...
Vaping Is Safer Than Smoking: Now It’s Official in France
France’s national health and safety agency, ANSES, has published a report concluding that vaping ...
Georgia Lawmakers’ “Number-One Priority” is Literacy, Except in Prisons
Georgia legislators say they’re going all-in to improve literacy rates. On March 10 the ...
New Mexico Will Fund Psychedelic Treatment for Patients on Low Incomes
On March 11, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) signed the budget for ...
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.

DOJ, VA to Take Legal Guardianship of Unhoused Veterans for “Ongoing Care”
On March 11, the Department of Justice and the Department of Veterans Affairs jointly announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) ...

The Kingpin Effect: Violence From “El Mencho” Killing Far From Over
Violence erupted across Mexico in the immediate aftermath of the February 22 killing of the drug lord known as “El ...

Documents Show BC Knew Safe-Supply Diversion Was Negligible
Even as British Columbia’s Ministry of Health was caving to right-wing panic over “diversion” of safe supply drugs, its public ...

















