Just after 5 am on January 31, a small army of police, city officials and outreach workers descended on the…
Meth! Meth, crystal. Who wants meth?” shouted a middle-aged man in a parka earlier this month. He had situated himself…
Three weeks before Christmas, a car made its way slowly up Howard Street, a narrow one-way thoroughfare in the Latino…
Back in mid-2017 I embarked on a journalistic endeavor that, to my knowledge, has not been replicated. Through a contact…
In recent weeks Washington has been stepping up its efforts to delegitimize kratom—and a DEA source tells Filter that it’s…
It’s 1985. Law enforcement is closing in on the last remnants of the South Philadelphia fiefdom of mob boss Nicodemo…
In the mid-1990s, Joseph P. Overton—a senior vice president at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy—observed that no matter how…
[Christopher Moraff pens the DISPATCHES column for Filter.] On October 24, President Donald Trump signed a package of bills into law…
The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is moving to reduce Suboxone diversion in its prisons by giving inmates suffering from opioid…
[This article contains graphic images of injecting drug use.] A picture may be worth a thousand words, but sometimes just…