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. When not at Filter, she works with drug users in NYC and drug checkers in North Carolina to track hyperlocal supply changes, and cohosts a national stimulant users call with Isaac Jackson. She uses meth daily and other drugs sometimes.
There aren't any treatments for stimulant use disorder (SUD) that have strong evidence, but the one that has the most…
A basic concept of toxicology is that “the dose makes the poison.” Any substance becomes poisonous to the human body…
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has begun the latest iteration of its synthetic drug supply chain crackdown, this time by…
Beginning October 1, Florida will consider it a second-degree felony to expose a first responder to fentanyl, if it results…
The United States recorded 107,941 drug overdose deaths in 2022, according to final data from the Centers for Disease Control…
On March 1, Oregon legislators approved a bill to recriminalize drug possession, undoing the historic Measure 110 enacted by voters…
Kansas, one of the last two states without a "Good Samaritan" law for drug overdose, is poised to enact one.…
Opvee, an opioid-overdose antidote manufactured by Indivior that was approved in 2023, has in recent weeks been slowly rolling out…
Cops seem to have decided that ever since fentanyl came into the illicit drug supply, regular-strength Narcan is no longer…
Washington State has advanced a bill to train drug-sniffing dogs to detect fentanyl—and limit police liability in civil lawsuits over…