To Save Veterans’ Lives, the VA Must Innovate on Smoking Cessation
The United States has invested trillions of dollars to equip our armed forces with ...
The Campaign to Call Fentanyl Deaths “Poisoning” Is Working as Intended
A basic concept of toxicology is that “the dose makes the poison.” Any substance ...
TN Private Prisons Quietly Transfer Us, This Time Without Saying Why
In 2016, the Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC) opened Trousdale Turner Correctional Center—the largest ...
Charting US Public Health’s Disastrous Mission Creep on Smoking
In 1964, the United States surgeon general released the landmark Smoking and Health report, ...
In “It Just Starts All Over Again,”Filter interviews patients and staff at a methadone clinic, as well as drug policy expert Deborah Smalls. Why can’t access to this lifesaving medication be improved?.
Filter speaks with harm reduction activists in the Philippines, who work in the face of President Duterte’s murderous drug war.
“Nicotine Hunger,” an original Filter video, features Louise Ross, a pioneering British harm reductionist whose work includes introducing vaping to smokers in a mental health hospital.
Many People Left to Make Their Own Stimulant Pipes and Face the Risks
Across the globe, people who use stimulants have devised creative, sometimes ingenious, smoking tools. Often used to heat up and ...
A Long Walk With the Tobacco Users of Mumbai
I‘m taking a walk through central Mumbai with Rizwan, who switched from smoking tobacco to vaping, then turned vape seller. ...