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.
Pennsylvania senators have introduced a bipartisan federal bill aimed at the economic harms of substance use disorder (SUD), while remaining…
One of the most commonly cited statistics in corrections department promotional materials is the one about how 95 percent of…
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has released the latest edition of its National Survey on Drug…
GOP representatives have introduced legislation that would amend the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA) by drastically lowering the number of…
The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has published its first report on wastewater-based drug testing, something that wasn’t…
The most recent monthly provisional overdose death data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show the rate of…
The Food and Drug Administration has unveiled multiple actions supporting President Donald Trump’s executive order fast-tracking access to psychedelic therapies…
Four years after Washington state sued Albertsons Companies, Inc. alleging that the grocery chain’s opioid dispensing “created a public health…
The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) has finally released the Trump administration's overdue Unified Agenda of Regulatory and…
On July 8, the Drug Enforcement Administration moved to permanently ban tianeptine under Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act…