Kastalia Medrano

    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.

    How the Pandemic Hit People Who Use Drugs, in Their Own Words

    In some ways, the coronavirus pandemic has hit marginalized people who use drugs the ...

    How Harm Reduction Is Responding to the Pandemic

    In the two weeks since the first coronavirus cases were confirmed in New York ...

    IV Ketamine Shows Promise for Chronic Pain, But Doubts Remain

    The Littleton, Colorado location of Ketamine Wellness Centers is in the basement level of ...