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The Drug War Myths People Still Believe

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Kastalia Medrano

MOTAA 2.0 Is Not Real Methadone Reform

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Helen Redmond

Finding Optimism in the Tobacco Harm Reduction Maelstrom

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Kiran Sidhu

Harm Reduction at Sea: Tight-Knit Fishing Communities Navigate Drugs

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Kristin Doneski

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.

A Harm Reduction Guide to Better Booty-Bumping Kits

Kastalia Medrano

Filter's mission is to advocate through journalism for rational and compassionate approaches to drug use, drug policy and human rights.

Sharing Needles as Street Kids in LA, During the Rise of the HIV Epidemic
Jonathan Kirkpatrick
At CoreCivic Prisons, Re-Entry Staff Are Told to Do Less
Tony Vick
“The Great Meltdown”: In Prisons, a Drug War Without Harm Reduction
Christy Perez
Lifers, Lab Rats and the Mandatory Minimums Experiment
Jimmy Iakovos

“Moral Bankruptcy” as WHO Opts to Maintain Global Coca Prohibition

Mattha Busby

Filter's mission is to advocate through journalism for rational and compassionate approaches to drug use, drug policy and human rights.

Michael Bloomberg Won His Vietnam War on Vaping
Marc Gunther
How Fear, Misinformation, Stigma Have Devastated US Pain Patients
Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard
For Black and Brown Communities, the Overdose Crisis Is Still Escalating
Jawanza James Williams
Local Harm Reduction Programs Under Siege
Manisha Krishnan

How I Use Short-Tip Needles: A Harm Reduction Guide

Charlie Baker

Filter's mission is to advocate through journalism for rational and compassionate approaches to drug use, drug policy and human rights.

A Guide to Fentanyl Touch Overdoses, Which Do Not Exist
Claire Zagorski
Enough With the Sex Offender Registry
Christy Perez & Kastalia Medrano
Fentanyl Patches Are Saving My Life. We Need to Make Them Accessible.
Matthew Bonn
The Case for Higher-Dose Buprenorphine
Brishti Basu

Deep Systemic Change: My 10 Steps to Transform Addiction Treatment

Maia Szalavitz

Filter's mission is to advocate through journalism for rational and compassionate approaches to drug use, drug policy and human rights.

Like Many Drug Policy Reformers, I’m Driven by Personal Tragedy
Diane Goldstein
In My Vape Shop, I Learned How the VA Lets Veterans Down
Kim "Skip" Murray
I Just Overdosed Again. This Time, It Was Different.
Matthew Bonn
In Defense of Juul, After the Latest Media Hit-Piece
Helen Redmond

There Are Multiple Routes to Prisoner Naloxone Access. These Are the Best.

Jonathan Kirkpatrick & Kastalia Medrano

Filter's mission is to advocate through journalism for rational and compassionate approaches to drug use, drug policy and human rights.

How I Freeze My Cottons, So As to Never Get Cotton Fever Again
Charlie Baker
The Gardener Who Grew Our Health Care in Prison
Jimmy Iakovos
The Pfizer Naloxone Shortage Ends, Leaving Us With Just the Regular One
Kastalia Medrano
What I Tell My Kids About My History of Drug Use
Tracey Helton Mitchell

I Chose Fentanyl Over the Humiliation of Methadone Treatment

Ethan Hawes

Filter's mission is to advocate through journalism for rational and compassionate approaches to drug use, drug policy and human rights.

“No Judgment”—Ten Personal Stories of Alcohol Harm Reduction
Kenneth Anderson
The Unfolding Tragedy of India’s Vape Prohibition
Alex Norcia
UK Stimulant Pipe Program Tracks the Risks of Homemade Options
Sydney Sauer
“Fentanyl Poisoning” Narrative Imposes a Hierarchy of Grief
Sam Snodgrass

Prisons Crush Almost All LGBTQ+ Organizing. Our Community Survives.

Tavaria Merritt

Filter's mission is to advocate through journalism for rational and compassionate approaches to drug use, drug policy and human rights.

Everyone I Know on Parole Is Vaping
Christy Perez
How the Criminalization of Testosterone Attacks Gender Variant People
Adryan Corcione
Nitazenes, the New Synthetic Opioids, Aren’t “More Deadly Than Fentanyl”
Carlyn Zwarenstein
Big Shoutout to Meth
Kastalia Medrano