New Tennessee legislation hopes to tackle teenage prescription opioid use by keeping pill bottles under lock and key–literally. The "Pilfering…
The crisis of opioid-related deaths extends throughout North America. Similar to cities across the United States, Vancouver, Canada, is flooded…
Current drug and health policy is clearly not doing enough to end the crisis of opioid-related deaths. But worse, "under…
The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania launched a preemptive strike February 6 against what the harm…
When it landed three years ago, some six guys died here in one week," says 51-year-old Roberto Prado, a homeless…
Casper has lived a life out straight out of Pulp Fiction. Over a 26-year career selling illicit drugs across the…
We often describe Filter as "harm reduction journalism"—meaning both journalism that comes out of and reports on the harm reduction…
Addiction counselor Stephanie Devich points to a Christmas tree glimmering with purple and silver ornaments in the lobby of Valhalla…
Naloxone can reverse an opioid overdose within minutes. Prompt access would prevent many of the 130 opioid-related deaths that occur…
New York City’s “Forgotten Borough” may be an island just five miles south of Manhattan but it has a deeply…