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“It’s Authoritarian”—Harm Reduction Under San Francisco’s Backlash

Helen Redmond
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AI Chatbots Bring Unexpected Business Boom to Jailhouse Lawyers

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Tony Vick

Protests as Cicero Institute Launches Homelessness Policy Summit

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Leah Harris

Brazil’s Notorious Drug Rehabs Poised to Treat Children as Young as 12

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Felipe Neis Araujo

Why Is It Harder for People in Rural Communities to Quit Smoking?

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Kiran Sidhu

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.

Cychlorphine Is Not the Problem

Kastalia Medrano

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

Everyone Against the Drug War Needs to Know About Jury Nullification
Jimmy Iakovos
Appalachians Want to Use Mobile Syringe Programs, If They’re Discreet
Sydney Sauer
Ignoring Georgia’s Public Defender Crisis, and the Obvious Way to Fix It
Jimmy Iakovos
World Health Organization Misses the Whole Point About Nicotine Pouches
Kiran Sidhu

CVS, Walgreens and Walmart Beat Rx Opioid Racketeering Lawsuit

Kastalia Medrano

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

The Time to Build an Equitable Psychedelic Landscape Is Now
Elizabeth Lore
Carceral Health Care Profiteers Keep Evading Responsibility for Harms
Tana Ganeva
ICE Picked Him Up From Prison. Then Agents “Hounded” His Family.
Tony Vick
Teen Vaping Has Long Been Falling. Why Do Schools Think the Opposite?
Charles Gardner

“Consider Tapering”—SAMHSA Turns Against Long-Term Methadone Use

Helen Redmond

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

“Fresh Meat”—How Prison Punishes Child Sexual Abuse
Tony Vick
Argentina Repeals Vape Prohibition After 15 Years
Kiran Sidhu
“End the Nightmare”—Coalition Hits DC for Cannabis Justice
Jack Gorsline
Trump Admin Plans More Drug War, AI Surveillance, Wastewater Testing
Tana Ganeva