Kastalia Medrano

    Kastalia is Filter‘s deputy editor. She previously worked at half a dozen mainstream digital media outlets and does not recommend the drug war coverage at any of them. For a while she was a syringe program peer worker in NYC, where she did outreach hep C testing and navigated participants through treatment. She also writes with Jon Kirkpatrick.

    Big Shoutout to Meth

    Somewhere between Sam Quinones columns and demolitions of lower-cost housing units, methamphetamine took on ...

    The Drug War Myths People Still Believe

      Fentanyl Is in Everything Around 2013, fentanyl started percolating in the United States ...

    Federal Bill Would Add SUD Category to Dislocated Worker Grant Eligibility

    Pennsylvania senators have introduced a bipartisan federal bill aimed at the economic harms of ...

    Three Lifers on Why Prisons Need Re-Entry Support for the Prisoners Who Aren’t Coming Home

    One of the most commonly cited statistics in corrections department promotional materials is the ...

    SAMHSA Reframes National Drug Use Survey, Leaves Fentanyl Problem Intact

    The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has released the latest edition ...

    No One’s Really Expecting the “Fentanyl Dealers Act” to Make Sense

    GOP representatives have introduced legislation that would amend the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA) ...

    White House Shares First Data From Wastewater Drug-Testing Project

    The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has published its first report on ...

    Overdose Data Show Two Paths Within Western Corridor of Rising Deaths

    The most recent monthly provisional overdose death data from the Centers for Disease Control ...

    FDA Schedules Psychedelics Hearing, Amid New Push for Medical Approval

    The Food and Drug Administration has unveiled multiple actions supporting President Donald Trump’s executive ...

    WA Begins Albertsons Opioid Trial, for Pharmacy’s Role in “Public Nuisance”

    Four years after Washington state sued Albertsons Companies, Inc. alleging that the grocery chain’s ...