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.

    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 ...

    SAMHSA’s National Drug Use Survey Still Has a Fentanyl Problem

    On July 30, the Substance Use and Mental Health Services Administration released its annual ...

    “Like Two Cavalries”: After TN Prison Standoff, Fear of What Comes Next

    On the evening of July 24, South Central Correctional Facility, a medium-security private prison ...

    CA Mandates Extreme Heat Workplace Safety, Except in Forced Labor Camps

    On June 20, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) approved the ...

    Decades After It Set Meth Sentencing by Purity, USSC Surveys the Damage

    Almost all controlled substances in the United States are criminalized by weight. There are ...

    White House Meth Plan Still Includes Harm Reduction, Just Not for Meth

    Once the federal government designated methamphetamine an “emerging drug threat” in March 2022, the ...