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.

    TrumpRx Launches, Offering Drug Discounts as Long as You Pay Cash

    On February 5 President Donald Trump launched TrumpRx.gov, a direct-to-consumer website listing pharmaceutical medications ...

    Feds Seek Public Comment on Meth Sentencing, Untouched for Decades

    The United States Sentencing Commission is seeking public comment on proposed amendments to the ...

    Trump Launches Recovery Initiative Taking Aim at “Disease of Addiction”

    On January 29 President Donald Trump issued an executive order launching “The Great American ...

    Fatal Overdose Fell 26 Percent in 2024, the Largest Decrease Ever Recorded

    Overdose deaths in the United States dropped dramatically between 2023 and 2024, with decreases ...

    “An Attempt to Shift This Dynamic”—House Revives Prison Libraries Act

    On January 27 lawmakers reintroduced the Prison Libraries Act, the first federal bill to ...

    Fentanyl Child Endangerment Bills Ramp Up Across the US

    Multiple states have introduced legislation this January aimed at addressing accidental drug exposure in ...

    SAMHSA Restores Thousands of Active Grants, a Day After It Cut Them

    Less than 24 hours after terminating the discretionary grants that represent nearly $2 billion ...

    Delayed CDC Data Show the Drop in Overdose Deaths Has Slowed Down

    On January 14 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published its monthly provisional ...