Media + Culture
Three Recent Stories Illustrate the Media’s Ongoing Drug-War Propaganda
Three widely distributed stories from the past couple of months illustrate the profound ways ...
Deprogramming From AA—When a Fellowship Resembles a Cult
Katherine was on the subway home from a meeting with her Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor ...
What Politicians Daring Each Other to Be Drug Tested Reveals
Politicians are usually fond of pushing drug testing on their constituents—not each other. But ...
“Crackhead” Is an Anti-Black Pejorative, Period
What’s up with this wave of crackhead jokes?” a Reddit user asked in a ...
Newsflash: There Are Drugs at Coachella—Let’s Help People Use Them Safely
Coachella, the giant annual music and arts festival in California’s Colorado Desert, began April ...
Filter’s Editor Discusses Our Mission—And the Problems With Wider Media Coverage of Drugs
Filter‘s editor-in-chief, Will Godfrey, was interviewed for the April 3 episode of Narcotica—a podcast about ...
Now the CDC Seems to Be Pushing Fentanyl Myths in Its New Video
On March 27, the Centers for Disease Control, in collaboration with the Fredericksburg, Virginia Police ...
“Patently False” Fentanyl Myth Peddled by Vermont Police Chief
On March 15, Brett Flansburg, a Vermont state trooper, collapsed in the parking lot ...
“Yellow Peril”—How Blaming China for Fentanyl Continues a Racist Legacy
As the overdose crisis roars on, various stakeholders seek to assign blame for these ...
“Never Enough:” Author of New Addiction Book Risks Promoting Stigma Against MAT
On February 12, Terry Gross interviewed neuroscientist Judith Grisel for NPR about her forthcoming ...
