At a New York City federal prison that’s recorded relatively few confirmed cases of COVID-19, medical requests made by incarcerated…
For months, media outlets including Filter have reported on a collage of anecdotal and local alerts from around the country…
Every day, vulnerable New Yorkers are being forced to choose between accessing their lifesaving medication, or protecting themselves and their…
The COVID-19 crisis has taken so much away from people who use drugs in New York. An historic number of…
Seven months and more than a million deaths into the pandemic, scientists around the globe still don’t understand why some…
People are drinking (and using marijuana) more during the pandemic. Alarms have predictably been raised, but anxiety is misdirected. RAND…
Drug use is globally interconnected. Just thinking of the routes illegal drugs take up to the point of consumption—from being…
A few months ago I caught a life-threatening blood infection from a dirty needle. Well, probably. I don't know that…
When it comes reducing the risks and harms of COVID-19 faced by unhoused people, public health and human rights officials…
In May, the US House of Representatives passed CARES 2—the HEROES Act—another legislative package responding to COVID-19. The measure contained…