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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
Why South Korean and Japanese People Still Can’t (Legally) Smoke Weed in Canada
South Korean and Japanese people visiting or living in Canada will have to think ...
