health care

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

[This article is excerpted from the book Policing Patients. You can read Filter’s interview with the author here.]   Pharmacists’…

December 12, 2024

How “Trojan Horse Technology” Turned Health Care Into Policing

Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis is a Swiss Army knife of a book.…

December 12, 2024

Psilocybin Helped Doctors and Nurses Who Worked Through the Pandemic

Many doctors and nurses suffered severe mental health impacts after working through the worst days of the COVID-19 pandemic, including…

December 10, 2024

GA Parole-Eligible Lifers Are Headed to the Private Prison Aftercare Industry

Of the 51,284 people currently incarcerated in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisons, 7,937 people are serving life with parole.…

October 18, 2024

To Get Methadone in Jail, I Had to Hide It in My Prosthetic Leg

The first time I went to jail, I was using heroin as well as methadone. I had a doctor who…

October 3, 2024

Overdose Prevention Centers Are Health Care: Treat Them as Such

Nearly 300 people across the country die of a drug overdose every day. This amounts to more than 107,000 people…

August 28, 2024

Mental Health Hospitalization in Italy Was an Improvement on the States

In-patient mental health care is regrettably often carceral to some degree. Any system built on forcing care upon a person…

July 30, 2024

Too Many Pharmacies Still Failing to Facilitate Harm Reduction

Pharmacies can have an important role in the prevention of overdose and other drug-related harms. Yet they're frequently doing far…

July 25, 2024

BC Lawsuit Highlights Harms of Opioid Prescribing Crackdown

A lawsuit in British Columbia details how a regulatory body is allegedly “harassing” doctors into taking pain patients off their…

July 19, 2024

My Old Doctor Gave Me Methadone. Being Forced Into a Clinic Ruined It.

I lost my leg in a car accident when I was 15. A little while after, I started having pain…

July 9, 2024