health care

A Methadone Pioneer Who Freed People From the Cruel Clinic System

Dr. Edwin Salsitz is a methadone OG. He was one of a coterie of New York City doctors who pioneered…

April 23, 2025

“Faces of Medicaid” Highlights Lifesaving Program Under Attack

A new campaign highlights how Medicaid has transformed the lives of many people who use drugs, through medications for opioid…

April 10, 2025

Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Conversion Therapy Ban

On March 10, the Supreme Court stated that it will review the constitutionality of a state ban on conversion therapy…

March 13, 2025

GOP Plans to Slash Medicaid Would Worsen Overdose Crisis

Republicans, in control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, aim to cut trillions of dollars in federal…

March 13, 2025

More Unsanctioned OPC to Pop Up Outside Hospitals Across Canada

Two months after doctors in British Columbia set up a pair of unsanctioned overdose prevention centers (OPC) outside local hospitals,…

January 22, 2025

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