In Final Meeting, GA Prisons Senate Committee Votes for the Status Quo

    Brought into existence to tell us whether Georgia’s notoriously unsafe prison system is unsafe, ...

    After Biden Clemency Action for Drug Convictions, Most People Want More

    As President Joe Biden announces a new round of pardons and commutations—including several for ...

    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 ...

    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 ...

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

    [This article is excerpted from the book Policing Patients. You can read Filter’s interview ...

    How “Trojan Horse Technology” Turned Health Care Into Policing

    Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis is a ...

    Wisconsin Marijuana Legalization (at Least Medical) Finally Looks Closer

    Wisconsin is a regional outlier: Bordering three legal-cannabis states in Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota, ...

    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 ...

    Psilocybin Helped Doctors and Nurses Who Worked Through the Pandemic

    Many doctors and nurses suffered severe mental health impacts after working through the worst ...