Kastalia is Filter‘s deputy editor. She previously worked at a number of other media outlets and wouldn’t recommend the drug coverage at any of them. She also works with drug users in NYC and drug checkers in North Carolina to track hyperlocal supply changes, and is part of a xylazine wound care team operated by the Urban Survivors Union. She uses meth daily and other drugs sometimes.
Alabama, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont have closed loopholes in their state constitutions that had allowed prisoners to be subjected to…
On September 22, the Food and Drug Administration announced that harm reduction naloxone suppliers are exempt from wholesale pharmaceutical distribution…
When Toronto’s Moss Park Overdose Prevention Site opened as an unsanctioned service in August 2017, drug-checking data contributed by staff…
[Read Filter's August 1 story introducing Remedy Alliance's naloxone distribution here.] In the same way that the United States…
In late April 2021, a manufacturing disruption brought Pfizer’s naloxone production to a standstill, leaving more than half the country’s…
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…