Kastalia Medrano

    Kastalia is Filter‘s deputy editor. She previously worked at a number of other media outlets and wouldn’t recommend the drug coverage at any of them. When not at Filter, she works with drug users in NYC and drug checkers in North Carolina to track hyperlocal supply changes, and cohosts a national stimulant users call with Isaac Jackson. She uses meth daily and other drugs sometimes.

    BC Has a Safe Supply of Smokable Heroin and No One Can Use It Yet

    For most of the nearly six years British Columbia’s overdose crisis has been declared ...

    In Hamilton, Ontario, a Safe Supply Program Inches Forward

    A small safe supply program in Hamilton, Ontario, is expanding. It has no funding, ...

    CDC Total Recorded Overdose Deaths Pass 1 Million

    A few weeks ago when the CDC announced we’d passed 100,000 recorded overdose deaths ...

    Court-Ordered Into AA? You Could Use The Satanic Temple Instead.

    Two-and-a-half years after a bad relationship left her homeless, and 16 months after Child ...

    The Annual “Halloween Candy or Edibles” Lie: Special COVID Edition

    Because it is October, attorneys general across the country are participating in the annual ...

    “Never Use Alone”: Free 24-Hour Hotline Expands Across New England

    The Never Use Alone Massachusetts hotline has become Never Use Alone New England, consolidating ...

    For Maine’s Church of Safe Injection, a Bittersweet Legalization

    On September 17, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention authorized a Maine syringe ...

    Harm Reduction Is for Eating Disorders, Too

    There must be all kinds of unexplored applications for harm reduction, but the one ...

    Hochul Inaugural Address Hints at Potential Harm Reduction Agenda

    New York Governor Kathy Hochul gave her inaugural address from Albany on August 24, ...