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.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has implemented its first internal policy covering staff access to naloxone. While it revolves entirely…
On October 22, the Food and Drug Administration announced what appears to be the United States government's largest seizure of…
In a call for innovation to reduce the public health harms of smoking, the National Institutes of Health and the…
The National Family Support Technical Assistance Center (NFSTAC) has curated a “Family & Caregiver Toolkit,” aimed at those whose children…
In her first visit to the United States-Mexico border since 2021, Vice President Kamala Harris met with Customs and Border…
On September 19, Senator Robert Casey (D-PA) introduced legislation that would require the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to begin…
Between April 2023 and April 2024, drug-related deaths across the country appear to have fallen more than 10 percent. Provisional…
Vermont has unveiled operating guidelines for overdose prevention centers (OPC), which will include smoking consumption areas and potentially mobile sites.…
The Drug Enforcement Administration is allowing pharmaceutical companies to produce a higher volume of Vyvanse and its generic versions. The…
On September 3, attorneys general representing 19 states and the District of Columbia filed an amicus brief with the Supreme…