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.
The 2025 legislative session has seen multiple states attempt to authorize overdose prevention centers (OPC). Some proposals didn't have the…
Hawaii has passed legislation authorizing syringe service programs (SSP) to begin distribution as needed, in place of the current model…
Walgreens, the nation’s second-largest pharmacy chain, will pay $300 million plus 4 percent interest to settle Department of Justice allegations…
Vermont legislators are reviewing a wide-ranging prison equity bill that, if enacted, would make the Vermont Department of Corrections (VDOC)…
The current legislative session has seen dozens of proposals to create or enhance criminal penalties for fentanyl-related charges, many of…
On March 25, Utah Governor Spencer Cox (R) signed a wide-ranging bill purportedly focused on the state's criminal-legal statutes, but…
On March 14, the Senate passed legislation that would permanently ban fentanyl-related substances (FRS) under Schedule I of the Controlled…
Data from the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) show that under 7 percent of people convicted in recent federal overdose…
Colorado legislators have proposed a working group to study the use of colorimetric drug tests within the criminal-legal system, and…
An estimated 86,882 people in the United States died of overdose between October 2023 and September 2024, according to provisional…