[This article is excerpted from the book Policing Patients. You can read Filter’s interview with the author here.] Pharmacists’…
Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis is a Swiss Army knife of a book.…
Many doctors and nurses suffered severe mental health impacts after working through the worst days of the COVID-19 pandemic, including…
Of the 51,284 people currently incarcerated in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisons, 7,937 people are serving life with parole.…
The first time I went to jail, I was using heroin as well as methadone. I had a doctor who…
Nearly 300 people across the country die of a drug overdose every day. This amounts to more than 107,000 people…
In-patient mental health care is regrettably often carceral to some degree. Any system built on forcing care upon a person…
Pharmacies can have an important role in the prevention of overdose and other drug-related harms. Yet they're frequently doing far…
A lawsuit in British Columbia details how a regulatory body is allegedly “harassing” doctors into taking pain patients off their…
I lost my leg in a car accident when I was 15. A little while after, I started having pain…