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.

    Vyvanse, “Abuse-Deterrent” Stimulant, Goes Generic in ADHD Med Shortage

    The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first generic versions of Vyvanse, the ...

    Which Meth Users Is Contingency Management Supposed to Be For?

    California’s contingency management (CM) program is slowly getting off the ground, following the Medi-Cal ...

    Meth Users Don’t Need Meds to Avoid OD. We Need Them to Avoid Cops.

    On July 19, the National Institute on Drug Abuse awarded over $4.3 million to ...

    Do Any Other Meth Users Find These Labels Pretty Arbitrary?

    If any of you use stimulants and have a particularly good system for waking ...

    It’s Not a Meth Overdose Crisis. It’s a Data Crisis.

    When someone dies without a doctor present, and they hadn’t seen a doctor anytime ...

    “A Dream Location”: RI Safe Injection, Inhalation Site Slated for Early 2024

    Rhode Island’s first safe consumption site (SCS) is expected to open in Providence in ...

    Fentanyl Cut With Xylazine Designated “Emerging Threat” by Feds

    On April 12, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) formally ...

    Meth Overamps Come in Two Forms. Mostly the One We Don’t Talk About.

    To people who don’t use meth, “overamp” means uncontrolled adrenaline. The term refers to ...

    Meth Harm Reduction and the Adderall Shortage

    For most of my 20s, running out of Adderall was the problem that put ...