My Dad Quit Cigarettes in 1984. To Doctors, He Was Always a “Smoker.”
Last month, my father died. I miss him deeply, and I always will. He ...
“Liberation in Order to Heal”—Psychedelics Movement at Crossroads
In June, the world’s largest psychedelics conference returned to Denver. Eight thousand participants gathered ...
Who’s Missing From the Tobacco Harm Reduction Conversation?
When it comes to tobacco harm reduction, whose opinions and voices should be heard? ...
“They Just Dropped Me”—When Drug-Related Stigma Replaces Pain Care
When Phillip lost motor control on one side of his body, I had only ...
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 ...

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 dope that had left me in ...