While officials in the US—and the UK where I live—debate the introduction of safe consumption spaces (SCS), it's important to…
Last year, a man in his 20s attending Electric Forest, a Michigan music festival, began to cry after discovering that…
In November 2018, Scotland launched a revised national drug policy that prioritizes recovery resources, including enhancing harm reduction resources. But according…
Recovery from addiction is different for everyone. In my case, abstinence from heroin didn’t work. Neither did medication. Anonymous meetings,…
HIV infections are surging in Cabell County, West Virginia. On April 4, 2019, the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health…
Behavioral-developmental challenges in childhood and addiction problems in adulthood are two sides of the same coin. Both constitute self-defeating patterns…
On May 17, Filter hosted a panel entitled "Tobacco Harm Reduction, Vulnerable Populations & Health Justice" at New York University, attended by…
On May 10, the members of the Health and Human Services Committee of Maine’s legislature debated LD949—a bill that would…
In British Columbia, an entirely peer-taught overdose prevention "Street Degree" program has graduated its first batch of certificate recipients. They…
As the US harm reduction community grapples with the legal, cultural and political challenges to implementing the nation’s first legal…