To Taper a Pain Patient? It’s Never One-Size-Fits-All
Many years ago, I broke my ankle—tibia and fibula—in a fall from a horse. ...
Nutrition Is an Overlooked Aspect of Harm Reduction
The connection between food and drugs is stronger than most people might think. Many ...
Inside the Philippines Prison That Sparked Duterte’s Murderous Drug War
Twenty-three thousand dead. That’s the latest estimate—and maybe a low one—of people killed by ...
A Conversation with Michael Johnson, Criminalized by Missouri’s HIV Law
Last week, Michael Johnson, a young black gay man, was released earlier than expected ...
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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.
How Did We Come to Abandon America’s Pain Patients?
Overdoses—not those involving prescription opioids, but of heroin and illicit fentanyl, often combined with benzodiazepines—continue to go up. But opioid ...
Arrested While “Panicking on Meth”—An Hour Later, He Was Dead
Alex Billmeyer was panicking when police swarmed a house in Dubuque, Iowa on May 26, yelling that people were shooting ...
