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.

    White House Releases Long-Overdue Federal Rulemaking Agenda

    The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) has finally released the Trump administration’s ...

    DEA Proposes Schedule I Ban for the First “Gas Station Drug,” Tianeptine

    On July 8, the Drug Enforcement Administration moved to permanently ban tianeptine under Schedule ...

    SAMHSA Rolls Out Funds for OUD Meds, Says That’s Not Harm Reduction

    On July 6, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration announced approximately $281.25 ...

    BOP to Close Six Prisons, as Trump Pushes Agency Deeper Into Chaos

    The federal Bureau of Prisons plans to permanently close six facilities, citing extreme understaffing ...

    Of Course 7-OH and Cychlorphine Fit Schedule I Criteria. All New Drugs Do.

    The Drug Enforcement Administration plans to order emergency placements of 7-OH, cychlorphine and multiple ...

    DHS Still Doesn’t Know What Its Fentanyl Seizures Actually Do

    In December 2022, the Department of Homeland Security was required to create a data ...

    If the DEA Gets Bad Press for Not Seizing Fentanyl, the DEA Still Wins

    In the week since the Associated Press and Albuquerque Journal separately reported on the ...

    DEA Plans Emergency Ban for O-DSMT, Active Compound in Tramadol

    On June 24 the Drug Enforcement Administration announced that it’s preparing to temporarily place ...

    SAMHSA Pubs Surprisingly Harm Reduction-y Guide for Pharmacists Prescribing Bupe

    On June 22 the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration published a resource ...

    Supreme Court Rejects Gun Ban for Certain People Using Certain Drugs

    On June 18, the Supreme Court ruled that the government cannot automatically ban people ...