Kastalia is Filter‘s deputy editor. She’s previously worked for outlets including Newsweek and VICE, and is also a peer worker at a Brooklyn syringe program where she does outreach hep C testing and navigates people through treatment. She uses meth daily and other drugs sometimes.
A lot of energy is being aimed at the legal arguments put forth in the Supreme Court draft majority opinion…
On May 4 in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) distributed 3.5 grams each of fentanyl-free heroin,…
The worst thing I've seen suggested at one of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s biannual Prescription Drug Take Back days is…
Traditionally, the conversation around US safe supply consists of saying that we don’t have one and then pointing to Canada.…
The 2022 State of the Union address was the first such speech to mention harm reduction. The brief reference reinforced…
Back before I'd ever heard of harm reduction, I spent a lot of time preoccupied with whether my prescription stimulant…
In 2019, Canada funded an expansion of safe supply and put out a call for pilot programs. Of particular interest…
For most of the nearly six years British Columbia's overdose crisis has been declared a public health emergency, the consumption…
A small safe supply program in Hamilton, Ontario, is expanding. It has no funding, a capacity limited to a few…
A few weeks ago when the CDC announced we’d passed 100,000 recorded overdose deaths in a 12-month period, I wondered…