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.

    Court-Ordered Into AA? You Could Use The Satanic Temple Instead.

    Two-and-a-half years after a bad relationship left her homeless, and 16 months after Child ...

    NYC’s Safe Consumption Sites Have Averted 63 Overdoses in Three Weeks

    In the three weeks since the first authorized safe consumption sites (SCS) in the ...

    The Annual “Halloween Candy or Edibles” Lie: Special COVID Edition

    Because it is October, attorneys general across the country are participating in the annual ...

    “Never Use Alone”: Free 24-Hour Hotline Expands Across New England

    The Never Use Alone Massachusetts hotline has become Never Use Alone New England, consolidating ...

    For Maine’s Church of Safe Injection, a Bittersweet Legalization

    On September 17, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention authorized a Maine syringe ...

    Harm Reduction Is for Eating Disorders, Too

    There must be all kinds of unexplored applications for harm reduction, but the one ...

    Hochul Inaugural Address Hints at Potential Harm Reduction Agenda

    New York Governor Kathy Hochul gave her inaugural address from Albany on August 24, ...

    The Biden Administration and Drug Policy: Expectation Versus Reality

    As President Joe Biden replaces President Trump, advocates are balancing hope with more realistic ...

    Frontline Harm Reductionists Qualify for Early Vaccination—Will They Get it?

    Frontline harm reductionists—including syringe service program (SSP) providers, peer outreach workers and hepatitis C ...