health care

Seroquel Gave Me a Reminder That All Drugs Are Merely Tools

Drugs are not good or bad. They are simply morally neutral tools which can help or hurt, depending on context.…

August 30, 2022

UK Program Will Pay People to Quit Smoking During Pregnancy

Pregnant people will be offered vouchers worth up to £400 (almost $500) to quit smoking in a pilot scheme in…

August 29, 2022

“Where They’re At”—Harm Reduction in Rural America

On a warm winter night, a small group of harm reduction workers in Charleston, West Virginia, stuffed the trunk of…

August 23, 2022

We Emergency Doctors Must Get Better at Offering Buprenorphine

An emergency department provider is a jack of all trades. The ED is open 24/7, and we’re equally as prepared…

July 12, 2022

NZ Hospital Leads the Way by Giving Vapes to Patients Who Smoke

The Whanganui District Health Board (DHB) has announced that its hospital on New Zealand’s North Island will go smoke-free on…

June 23, 2022

First-of-Its-Kind Lawsuit Demands Insurance Companies Cover Medical Marijuana for Behavioral Health

New Mexico’s largest marijuana company and a coalition of patients have filed a class-action lawsuit against seven health insurance companies…

June 15, 2022

“Administrative Detox” From Methadone Sums Up System’s Cruelty

I got a distressing phone call one morning from a comrade in our local mutual aid network in Michigan. I’ll…

June 8, 2022

The Mission to Make Psilocybin Available to UK Cancer Patients

“I was involved in oncology when I was a medic,” Dr. Malcolm Barratt-Johnson told Filter, “and in all honesty, the…

April 25, 2022

As a Methadone Patient, I Demand No Return to the Pre-COVID Status Quo

COVID-19 made us rethink how and why we were doing all kinds of things simply out of routine. Why do…

April 20, 2022

More Doctors Recommending Vapes—Due in Part to Patients’ Prompting

A study published April 15 in JAMA Network Open found that more and more US patients who smoke are asking…

April 19, 2022