Use + Harm Reduction
How I Started South Carolina’s Only Formal Syringe Exchange
When I was 19, living in New Jersey and injecting drugs, I found out ...
How My First LSD Trip Led Me to Accept My Sexuality
Someone had to tell me what to do with it: under your tongue, leave ...
Smoking: Just to Get By
Smoking is a stress relief,” says one of the interview subjects of this Filter film ...
Why Philly’s Smoking Ban at Addiction Treatment Centers Will Be Harmful
Late last year, public health officials in Philadelphia—which ranks second among large cities hit ...
Many Rural Americans Have No Access to Buprenorphine
Nearly a third of rural Americans live in a county without access to buprenorphine—the gold ...
Sure, Cannabis Is a “Gateway Drug”—Toward Less Use of Other Drugs
As more and more prohibitionist cannabis policies are reversed in North America, a long-peddled, if long-debunked, ...
What a Breakthrough E-Cigarette Study Illustrates About Addiction
The first large, systematic study of whether e-cigarettes help people to quit smoking was ...
Brave Russian Harm Reductionists Launch Chemsex Program in Moscow
A new Russian harm reduction program for Muscovites engaging in chemsex is getting started ...
Should I Drug Test My Kids? Why the Experts Say No
Does anyone still want to do drug tests on their children? Apparently so, because ...
Fentanyl Overdoses Spike on Mexico’s Northern Border But Remain Invisible
When it landed three years ago, some six guys died here in one week,” ...
