Kastalia is Filter‘s deputy editor. She’s previously worked for outlets including Newsweek and VICE, and is also a peer worker at a syringe program in Brooklyn where she field-tests low-income New Yorkers for hepatitis C and navigates their treatment. She uses meth.
For most of the nearly six years British Columbia's overdose crisis has been declared a public health emergency, the consumption…
A small safe supply program in Hamilton, Ontario, is expanding. It has no funding, a capacity limited to a few…
A few weeks ago when the CDC announced we’d passed 100,000 recorded overdose deaths in a 12-month period, I wondered…
Two-and-a-half years after a bad relationship left her homeless, and 16 months after Child Protective Services took her children, Stephanie…
In the three weeks since the first authorized safe consumption sites (SCS) in the US began operating, the two New…
Because it is October, attorneys general across the country are participating in the annual tradition of urging parents to stand…
The Never Use Alone Massachusetts hotline has become Never Use Alone New England, consolidating the free service for people using…
On September 17, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention authorized a Maine syringe service program (SSP) to do what…
There must be all kinds of unexplored applications for harm reduction, but the one I always come back to is…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul gave her inaugural address from Albany on August 24, one day after the drawn-out departure…