Kastalia is Filter‘s deputy editor. She previously worked at half a dozen mainstream digital media outlets and would 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.
The Food and Drug Administration is reportedly providing guidance and “positive feedback” for a proposed nalmefene product that will last…
Every couple of weeks a local media outlet does some coverage of fentanyl test strips (FTS) that tells basically the…
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released the finalized version of its order regulating the costs of incarcerated people’s communication…
New amendments to federal sentencing guidelines will put less of an emphasis on the quantity of drugs someone was charged…
Michigan, where syringe service programs (SSP) have been rapidly expanding yet operate in a legal gray area, is considering legislation…
On October 27, New Jersey Senator Shirley K. Turner (D) introduced a bill that would criminalize 7-hydroxymitragynine as a Schedule…
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved its proposal to nearly double the prices that people in prisons and jails…
Massachusetts is considering multiple proposals that, taken together, would make the landscape of overdose response increasingly hostile toward people who…
Less than two months after an investigation into deceptive marketing prompted Indivior Inc. to stop promoting its overdose antidote Opvee,…
The federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will not issue November benefits to the 42 million people who rely on…