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 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 DEA Made a “Fentanyl Facts” Quiz. Let’s See How They Did.

    One of the weirder things to come out of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ...

    Stimulant Treatment Research Finally Uses Outcome Besides Abstinence

    To whatever degree harm reduction has gotten mainstreamed, it still hasn’t budged the meaning ...

    The FDA Draft Guidance for Stimulant Use Disorder Medication Is… Decent

    One of the reasons we have Food and Drug Administration-approved medications for opioid use ...

    SAMHSA’s National Drug Use Survey Has a Fentanyl Problem

    Up through 2021, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) national drug ...

    China to Target Fentanyl Precursors, Deepening the Synthetic Drug War

    China has reportedly agreed to crack down on companies that manufacture and export fentanyl ...

    DEA Targets Precursors, Pill Presses in Fentanyl Supply Chain Crackdown

    In the aftermath of the temporary class-wide fentanyl ban the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ...

    It’s Fentanyl Misinformation Season. Please Consume Media Responsibly.

    Every year, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) gets a few more allies in its ...

    One Weird Trick Reporters Can Use to Make Fentanyl Stories Less Bad

    Media coverage of fentanyl is beyond a quick fix, but I still think this ...