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.
In 2022 the White House Office of National Drug Control Strategy (ONDCP) published its first National Drug Control Strategy, which…
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In a call for innovation to reduce the public health harms of smoking, the National Institutes of Health and the…
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In her first visit to the United States-Mexico border since 2021, Vice President Kamala Harris met with Customs and Border…