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Are Doctors “Dickheads?”

The hashtag #Doctorsaredickheads spread across Twitter this past weekend, with many people weighing in about how they've been mistreated by…

October 30, 2018

Portland’s Democratic DA Candidate Drops Out After Sexual Conduct Accusations. That’s Really Bad for Maine Drug Policy.

On October 30, Democratic candidate Jon Gale announced his resignation from the race for Cumberland County District Attorney, Maine's most powerful…

October 30, 2018

How the Young Lords Took Lincoln Hospital, Left a Health Activism Legacy

“They just took over the Nurses' Residence at Lincoln Hospital,” says Walter Bosque, an acupuncturist and community organizer. His salt-and-pepper…

October 30, 2018

Brazil Heading for Even Deadlier Drug War After Election of President Jair Bolsonaro

On October 28, repressive drug policy secured a powerful platform in Brazil, the world’s fourth-largest democracy, with the election of…

October 29, 2018

Trump’s New Opioid Package Is Gift-Wrapped for Indivior—At What Cost?

[Christopher Moraff pens the DISPATCHES column for Filter.] On October 24, President Donald Trump signed a package of bills into law…

October 29, 2018

Misinformation About So-Called “Terrorist Drug” Dispelled in New Report

If you're in the US, you may not have heard of captagon—an understudied synthetic drug recreationally popular and widely traded…

October 25, 2018

Six Months Since My Daughters Were Taken, Here’s How the System Punishes Past Drug Use

The ground feels unsteady, like there's some dark ocean lurching beneath the wide flat floor tiles. I don't want to…

October 25, 2018

Why Everything About the Trump Administration’s New Opioid Video Campaign Is Wrong

A new campaign—from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), the Truth Initiative and the nonprofit Ad…

October 24, 2018

Vaping Isn’t About Big Business—It’s About Us, the Vapers

Unless you are a smoker who has tried and failed to stop, I don’t think you can really appreciate how…

October 24, 2018

“Organizing Through Pain”—Harm Reduction Leaders Address Race and Structural Violence

A panel session titled “Organizing Through Pain and Policy: Multiracial Organizing in the Opioid Crisis” was just one of well…

October 23, 2018