Kastalia Medrano

    Kastalia is Filter‘s deputy editor. She previously worked at half a dozen mainstream digital media outlets and would not recommend the drug 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.

    White House Reviews Its Drug Control Strategy, Finds It’s Doing a Good Job

    In 2022 the White House Office of National Drug Control Strategy (ONDCP) published its ...

    DOJ Sues CVS, Alleging “Massive Public Harm” From Opioid Dispensing

    The Department of Justice is accusing CVS Pharmacy Inc. of unlawfully filling opioid prescriptions ...

    The “Reemergence” of Carfentanil

    Proponents of the Controlled Substances Act like to characterize fentanyl analogs as more potent and ...

    Why Would the Temporary Class-Wide Fentanyl Bans Ever Expire?

    Six years after the Drug Enforcement Administration issued a two-year temporary order placing fentanyl-related ...

    US Appeals Court Blocks Securus, Pay Tel Bids to Stall Prison Call Rate Caps

    The landmark Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations poised to bring down costs of phone ...

    CBP Rolls Out Mildly Surprising Workforce Naloxone Policy

    Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has implemented its first internal policy covering staff access ...

    FDA Reports Largest-Ever Seizure of Unregulated Nicotine Vapes

    On October 22, the Food and Drug Administration announced what appears to be the ...

    SAMHSA-Backed Toolkit Introduces Harm Reduction to Families, Caregivers

    The National Family Support Technical Assistance Center (NFSTAC) has curated a “Family & Caregiver ...