SCS

Huge Harm Reduction Gathering Allows Portugal to Teach the World

To walk down the hill to the Douro River in Porto on a sunny day is to navigate a delightful…

April 29, 2019

Inside the Legal Struggle Over Safe Consumption Spaces

On February 5, a group of protestors gathered outside the Philadelphia offices of William McSwain, the US Attorney General for the…

April 5, 2019

Beyond Purdue: Our Deadly Unlearned Lessons From the Overdose Crisis

There is a profound moment in the film And The Band Played On, about the early days of the US…

March 27, 2019

Study: A Seattle Safer Consumption Site Would Save Money, as Well as Lives

Just one safer consumption space (SCS) for people who use drugs in Kings County, Washington would generate annual savings worth…

March 5, 2019

“Never Give Up”—State Commission Urges Mass. to Move for Supervised Consumption Sites

The Massachusetts Commission on Harm Reduction issued a report on March 1 recommending the development of supervised consumption spaces (SCS)…

March 4, 2019

Heroin Buyers Clubs Proposed by Researchers to Reduce Overdose

The crisis of opioid-related deaths extends throughout North America. Similar to cities across the United States, Vancouver, Canada, is flooded…

February 21, 2019

Feds Take First Formal Swing at Stopping Supervised Consumption Space

The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania launched a preemptive strike February 6 against what the harm…

February 7, 2019

Fentanyl Overdoses Spike on Mexico’s Northern Border But Remain Invisible

When it landed three years ago, some six guys died here in one week," says 51-year-old Roberto Prado, a homeless…

February 4, 2019

More Companies Should Offer Bathroom Syringe Disposals Like Starbucks

One sign of the extent to which the overdose crisis has shifted public discourse is how few places remain unaffected.…

January 23, 2019

What Is Harm Reduction, Anyway?

We often describe Filter as "harm reduction journalism"—meaning both journalism that comes out of and reports on the harm reduction…

January 22, 2019