Christopher Moraff 
Philadelphia Cracks Down on Encampment, Creates More Suffering
Just after 5 am on January 31, a small army of police, city officials ...
Why Crystal Meth Has Made a Big Comeback in Philadelphia
Meth! Meth, crystal. Who wants meth?” shouted a middle-aged man in a parka earlier ...
The Haunting Memorials of Philly’s Drug Wars Have Much to Teach Us
Three weeks before Christmas, a car made its way slowly up Howard Street, a ...
What I Found When I Applied Hundreds of Fentanyl Tests to Philly’s Street Drugs
Back in mid-2017 I embarked on a journalistic endeavor that, to my knowledge, has ...
How a Kratom Ban Will Create Health Risks and Suffering—and Fuel Terrorism
In recent weeks Washington has been stepping up its efforts to delegitimize kratom—and a ...
El Chapo’s Trial Solves Nothing: The “Freelancer Effect” Applies Everywhere
It’s 1985. Law enforcement is closing in on the last remnants of the South ...
Meet America’s New Most Reform-Minded DA: A Q&A With Rachael Rollins
In the mid-1990s, Joseph P. Overton—a senior vice president at the Mackinac Center for ...
Trump’s New Opioid Package Is Gift-Wrapped for Indivior—At What Cost?
[Christopher Moraff pens the DISPATCHES column for Filter.] On October 24, President Donald Trump signed ...
Pennsylvania DOC to Pilot Injectable Buprenorphine for Detoxing Prisoners
The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is moving to reduce Suboxone diversion in its prisons ...
Drug Reporters Know This Is a War―So Why Don’t We Cover It Like One?
[This article contains graphic images of injecting drug use.] A picture may be worth ...
