Filter is shutting down this week. It's a big loss for those of us who have cared about the publication. But we have much to be grateful for.

Filter is shutting down this week. It's a big loss for those of us who have cared about the publication. But we have much to be grateful for.

Despite vague language about more non-clinic prescribers, the updated bill does not address fundamental problems in the original version.

Featuring: [Co-moderator] Gaby Zabala-Alemán Project Manager, Tobacco Harm Reduction Education and Engagement (THREE), National Harm Reduction Coalition…

So we have an old, unprofitable medication and a newer "blockbuster drug." Can you guess who's ended up on which one?

I don't know why this gap between the evidence and schools’ perceptions exists—driving harmful policies across the US—but I have some ideas.

The risk is not only to people who smoke in Belgium, but that the move could buld pressure for an EU-wide ban, advocates say.

Argentina has ended its prohibition of vapes and other safer nicotine products. Tobacco harm reduction advocates welcome the repeal as ...

Oklahoma has just begun allowing prisoners to purchase safer nicotine products—vapes and pouches—at commissary. Some jails already permitted this, as ...

When it comes to methadone treatment for opioid use disorder, Representative Erin Houchin, a Trump–supporting Republican from Indiana, wants to ...

Quitting smoking is hard, and anything that might help should be thoroughly explored, particularly when we know different options work ...

The lavish Obama Presidential Center arrives as millions face economic strain — built by donors who benefited from the very system he once promised to change.

Methadone is a life-saving medication. But the current system for obtaining it — the opioid treatment program, commonly known as the methadone clinic — is punitive, unjust, and often humiliating. In t...

A new National Methadone Access and Quality Commission has been created by the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE). It ...

This live panel of experts will unpack the carceral and racist history of methadone. Panelists will discuss how siloed clinics are a creation of the War on Drugs, expose the role of the Drug Enforceme

An expert panel on how the methadone clinic system oppresses people who take methadone & the case for clinic abolition to save lives

Remarkably similar scenes from Boston and Minneapolis, 260 years apart, show a federal government betraying its founding principles.

Global State of Harm Reduction 2025: key data updates on harm reduction services, funding and drug policy worldwide amid major 2025 US funding cuts.

A hard-hitting exposé of how methadone clinics fail people in recovery—and an urgent, unapologetic case for their abolition Methadone is a life-saving medication. But the current system for...

Patients or caregivers are having their registration immediately suspended—and potentially revoked—if charged with certain drug violations.

Tributes have poured in for the inspirational harm reductionist, movement leader and Filter contributor, who died on September 2.

Shoshana Walter's new book is a devastating exposé of cruelty, exploitation and systemic barriers. She tells Filter about her takeaways.

Introducing Master Plan: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America, available at booksellers everywhere.

Prominent mayoral candidates are distancing themselves from “defund” and instead offering “cops and more” public safety plans. But that approach neglects the victims of police brutality and risks furt...

As the Caribbean killings continue, Trump makes ludicrous claims and destabalizes the region by redesignating Colombia.

Lenacapavir, approved by the FDA in June, requires only two shots a year. US insurers don't cover it, but access will soon increase abroad.

The agency has been getting a bit more creative with its approach to placing fentanyl analogs under the Controlled Substances Act.

After decades advising presidents, the former Secretary of Labor is sounding the alarm.

New research illustrates well-worn truths about the futility of punitive approaches to drug use. Meanwhile, New York cracks down on vapes.

While waging war in the Caribbean to "protect Americans," the administration is slashing lifesaving care for PWUD, as a new tracker details.

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Momentum builds as Germany, the Czech Republic and the UK are among nations to have recently taken dramatic or incremental steps.