Kastalia is Filter‘s deputy editor. She previously worked at half a dozen mainstream digital media outlets and does 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.
On July 6, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration announced approximately $281.25 million in funding for 15 federal…
The federal Bureau of Prisons plans to permanently close six facilities, citing extreme understaffing and “decades of deferred maintenance." The…
The Drug Enforcement Administration plans to order emergency placements of 7-OH, cychlorphine and multiple substances related to each in Schedule…
In December 2022, the Department of Homeland Security was required to create a data collection program for its fentanyl operations…
In the week since the Associated Press and Albuquerque Journal separately reported on the Drug Enforcement Administration allowing certain fentanyl…
On June 24 the Drug Enforcement Administration announced that it's preparing to temporarily place synthetic opioid O-desmethyltramadol (O-DSMT) in Schedule…
On June 22 the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration published a resource document covering the role of pharmacists…
On June 18, the Supreme Court ruled that the government cannot automatically ban people who use drugs from owning firearms.…
The United States overdose crisis appears to be separating into regional crises on different trajectories, as a wave of fentanyl-involved…
The Food and Drug Administration has granted over-the-counter (OTC) approval to Rextovy, a 4 mg naloxone nasal spray product manufactured…