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.

    Now the FDA Wants Nalmefene to Be a Fentanyl-Exposure “Prophylactic”

    The Food and Drug Administration is reportedly providing guidance and “positive feedback” for a ...

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    Are We Sure We’re Using Fentanyl Test Strips the Right Way?

    Every couple of weeks a local media outlet does some coverage of fentanyl test ...

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    Piece by Piece, FCC Dismantles Its Prison and Jail Phone Call Price Caps

    The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released the finalized version of its order regulating ...

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    Feds Take Small Steps Away From Life Sentences for Street-Level Drug Selling

    New amendments to federal sentencing guidelines will put less of an emphasis on the ...

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    Michigan Will Again Try to Legalize Its Rising Number of Syringe Programs

    Michigan, where syringe service programs (SSP) have been rapidly expanding yet operate in a ...

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    Some States Try to Ban 7-OH, Others to Regulate Kratom. Some Try Both.

    On October 27, New Jersey Senator Shirley K. Turner (D) introduced a bill that ...

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    FCC Raises Prison and Jail Phone Call Pricing—Higher Than It Said It Would

    The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved its proposal to nearly double the prices ...

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    MA Overdose Bills Signal Push Toward Nalmefene, Civil Commitment

    Massachusetts is considering multiple proposals that, taken together, would make the landscape of overdose ...

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    Indivior Isn’t Done With Opvee, the Overdose Antidote That’s Not Narcan

    Less than two months after an investigation into deceptive marketing prompted Indivior Inc. to ...

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    SNAP Benefits Stop Amid Shutdown—and New Rules Restricting Eligibility

    The federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will not issue November benefits to the ...

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