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.
A minor media frenzy has been forming around cychlorphine, a novel synthetic opioid described as the "next killer drug" taking…
On March 2, the Drug Enforcement Administration published a final rule permanently scheduling five benzodiazepines under the Controlled Substances Act.…
Oklahoma is considering a bill that would increase the state’s authority to intervene when people use unregulated drugs during pregnancy,…
Legislators in Indiana have unanimously advanced a bill that proposes an unusual solution to the shortage of qualified coroners to…
Illinois is considering a wide-ranging harm reduction bill that advocates believe may have traction with legislators. If enacted, the Holistic…
The Food and Drug Administration will no longer expect pharmaceutical manufacturers to submit two pivotal trials in applications for new…
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is not only continuing to incarcerate people past the point when they should have…
Connecticut senators have introduced a bill to authorize an overdose prevention center (OPC) pilot project. SB 195 was proposed February…
On February 9, New Mexico state senators will discuss a proposal to study the feasibility of overdose prevention centers (OPC).…
On February 5 President Donald Trump launched TrumpRx.gov, a direct-to-consumer website listing pharmaceutical medications at reduced prices that the administration…