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.

    VT Overdose Prevention Centers to Allow Smoking Areas, Mobile Units

    Vermont has unveiled operating guidelines for overdose prevention centers (OPC), which will include smoking ...

    DEA Raises ADHD Med Production Quotas. It Could Just Fix the Shortage.

    The Drug Enforcement Administration is allowing pharmaceutical companies to produce a higher volume of ...

    Triton Case: Briefs on “Poisonous” Vape Flavors Flood Supreme Court

    On September 3, attorneys general representing 19 states and the District of Columbia filed ...

    NY Gov. Hochul Silent on Overdose Prevention Centers as Pressure Mounts

    New York Governor Kathy Hochul has never been outspoken about overdose prevention centers (OPC). ...

    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 ...