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Time for a Concerted Push to Get Vapes in All Prisons

Tobacco harm reduction in the United States, like most other harm reduction, tends to ignore the prison-industrial complex and the…

December 13, 2024

As OPC Opens in Rhode Island, the US Still Lags Far Behind

Rhode Island has made history by opening the United States' first overdose prevention center (OPC) that's sanctioned by a state…

December 12, 2024

Pharmacists’ Opioid Decisions: From “Social Sorting” to Policing

[This article is excerpted from the book Policing Patients. You can read Filter’s interview with the author here.]   Pharmacists’…

December 12, 2024

How “Trojan Horse Technology” Turned Health Care Into Policing

Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis is a Swiss Army knife of a book.…

December 12, 2024

Wisconsin Marijuana Legalization (at Least Medical) Finally Looks Closer

Wisconsin is a regional outlier: Bordering three legal-cannabis states in Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota, it has yet to legalize even…

December 11, 2024

In Prison, a Sex Conviction Is a Target for Assault. Staff Pretends Otherwise.

Coming into the Tennessee men’s prison system nearly 30 years ago, I assumed that my murder conviction would make me…

December 11, 2024

VA Woman Could Face Lifetime in Prison for Mushroom, Cannabis Sales

A woman in Louisa County, Virginia, faces a sentence of up to 160 years in prison after her conviction for…

December 10, 2024

Psilocybin Helped Doctors and Nurses Who Worked Through the Pandemic

Many doctors and nurses suffered severe mental health impacts after working through the worst days of the COVID-19 pandemic, including…

December 10, 2024

Offering Narcan to Just the Prisoners Being Released Doesn’t Work

[Read Part 1 and Part 2 of this series] One of the most commonly cited statistics in overdose prevention comes…

December 9, 2024

Ontario’s Unconscionable Supervised Consumption Sites Shutdown

On December 2, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada, passed a law that will shut down 10 supervised drug consumption…

December 9, 2024