Zombies are apparently not just for Halloween—they pervade media descriptions of people who use drugs. An October New York Times…
On October 30, the DEA announced that Pharma company Insys Therapeutics filed in August for approval to manufacture “marihuana” and “Tetrahydrocannabinols” (THC) in…
The hashtag #Doctorsaredickheads spread across Twitter this past weekend, with many people weighing in about how they've been mistreated by…
On October 30, Democratic candidate Jon Gale announced his resignation from the race for Cumberland County District Attorney, Maine's most powerful…
“They just took over the Nurses' Residence at Lincoln Hospital,” says Walter Bosque, an acupuncturist and community organizer. His salt-and-pepper…
On October 28, repressive drug policy secured a powerful platform in Brazil, the world’s fourth-largest democracy, with the election of…
[Christopher Moraff pens the DISPATCHES column for Filter.] On October 24, President Donald Trump signed a package of bills into law…
If you're in the US, you may not have heard of captagon—an understudied synthetic drug recreationally popular and widely traded…
The ground feels unsteady, like there's some dark ocean lurching beneath the wide flat floor tiles. I don't want to…
A new campaign—from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), the Truth Initiative and the nonprofit Ad…