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.

    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 ...

    Overdose Death Data Patterns Emerge as Crisis Surges in Western States

    The United States overdose crisis appears to be separating into regional crises on different ...

    FDA Approves 4 Mg Rextovy as Third Over-the-Counter Naloxone Product

    The Food and Drug Administration has granted over-the-counter (OTC) approval to Rextovy, a 4 ...

    Supreme Court Blocks Alabama Bid to Proceed With Banned Nitrogen Execution

    On June 11 the Supreme Court received, and subsequently rejected, a request from the ...

    HHS Wants Input on Which Kinds of Treatment and Recovery to Fund

    The Department of Health and Human Services is asking the public to weigh in ...

    FDA Greenlights First Human Trial of Kratom to Treat Opioid Use Disorder

    The Food and Drug Administration has approved an Investigational New Drug Application (IND) to ...