The Overlooked Benefits of Nicotine for Mental and Cognitive Health
With the rise of tobacco harm reduction (THR) products—including vapes, heated tobacco and pouches—nicotine ...
How New MP Aaron Gunn Helped Turn Canada Against Harm Reduction
As Canada’s parliament gets into motion following the spring federal election, it has one ...
How I Freeze My Cottons, So As to Never Get Cotton Fever Again
The first time I ever got cotton fever, I thought it was just bad ...
To Bring Tobacco Harm Reduction to Prisons, We Need Outside Allies
Harm reduction efforts outside prison often involve lawyers and other experts identifying policy that ...
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 sits down with Dr. Marewa Glover, to discuss New Zealand’s successful adoption of tobacco harm reduction.
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 Rhode Island’s Pioneering Overdose Prevention Center
In January, the United States’ first state-sanctioned overdose prevention center (OPC) began operations in Providence, Rhode Island. Run by harm ...

Props for Public Drug-Checking, From Someone Who Sold MDMA in the ’90s
In 1997 I went off to college, at an East Coast Jesuit school where everyone was really into athletics. The ...