Kastalia Medrano

    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.

    Fentanyl Doomsday Prepping

    On August 26, pharmaceutical manufacturer Indivior announced that it had begun supplying the Biomedical ...

    FCC Denies Securus Exemption From Price Caps on Calls From Prisons, Jails

    On August 26, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued final rulings on multiple outstanding ...

    The Casualties of the “Passive Drug Exposure” Myth

    In early August, 11 New York State corrections officers (COs) were at the scene ...

    OK Prisons Privatize Mail, as “Digital Processing Centers” Expand Drug War

    Beginning September 1, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) will no longer deliver physical ...

    FDA Approves Risky Opioid Overdose Reversal Product From Purdue Pharma

    On August 7 the Food and Drug Administration approved an opioid overdose antidote developed ...

    The Headlines Doing Fentanyl Math Will Always Be Wrong

    Back when I was at the science desk at Newsweek, they used to bring ...

    SAMHSA’s National Drug Use Survey Still Has a Fentanyl Problem

    On July 30, the Substance Use and Mental Health Services Administration released its annual ...

    “Like Two Cavalries”: After TN Prison Standoff, Fear of What Comes Next

    On the evening of July 24, South Central Correctional Facility, a medium-security private prison ...

    CA Mandates Extreme Heat Workplace Safety, Except in Forced Labor Camps

    On June 20, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) approved the ...