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.
The latest overdose mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the rate of drug deaths…
Under a proposed amendment to the Controlled Substances Act, defendants in federal overdose cases could face the death penalty for…
The Department of Transportation will require “directly observed” urine drug-testing in federal workplace situations where saliva testing has been called…
The first comprehensive report on the impact of offering free phone calls in United States prisons and jails shows that…
The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has released the 2026 National Drug Control Strategy, the first one under…
The Trump administration will no longer allow grant funding from the Department of Health and Human Services to pay for…
Days after the Department of Justice rescheduled state-licensed medical marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act, the Drug Enforcement Administration has…
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has signed an order moving state-licensed medical marijuana products from Schedule I to Schedule III…
On April 15, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published its most recent monthly provisional drug overdose death count,…
Illinois lawmakers are considering a proposal to pilot long-acting injectable medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) within the state prison…