Will the CDC Finally Abandon the Damaging Term “EVALI”?
Health economist Michael Pesko is asking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a ...
The “Felony-Friendly” Job Lists Don’t Really Mean Anything
In 2020 when I was nearing the end of my 10-year prison sentence, I ...
In Praise of Pleasure
Unabashed ravishment, whether from binge eating or drug use, makes those of us who ...
Hopes of Shutting Rikers Grow Under Mamdani, as Deaths Continue
On March 25, 39-year-old Barry Cozart collapsed at Rikers, New York City’s notorious island ...
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.
Sweden Is Now the World’s First “Smoke-Free” Country
Sweden has become the world’s first “smoke-free” country, with an astonishingly low daily smoking rate of just 3.7 percent—well below ...
Jair Bolsonaro, Enemy of Books, Now in Brazil’s Prison Reading Program
In 2020, Brazil’s then-president Jair Bolsonaro criticized grade-school didactic books for having “too much written in them.” Apparently the Left, ...
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 the upcoming fiscal year into law, ...
