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"Overdose is rarely harmful. The supply is reliably pure. It's cheap. It’s pretty. It’s invisible. It’s queer. It’s working class. It’s health care. Its withdrawal isn't gastrointestinal. Like it or not, meth is the people’s drug." By @kastaliamedrano: filtermag.org/big-shoutout-t…

Big Shoutout to Meth

Somewhere between Sam Quinones columns and demolitions of lower-cost housing units, methamphetamine took on the public image of something actually ...

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Our journalism has also innovated in other ways. For example, the reporting process for this article saw the first and possibly only time that incarcerated people accessed drug-checking services without department of corrections involvement: filtermag.org/synthetic-cann…

Prison “K2”: The Hidden Center of a Chaotic New Drug War

Back when I was running with biker gangs, we used to play a game called Crash or Fly. Someone would ...

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Though Filter has always been quite small, we've broken news like both the beginning and the end of the affordable naloxone shortage; approval of OTC Narcan; ACLU fights for methadone; unauthorized OPC pop-ups; and changes to prison drug-testing policies: filtermag.org/us-naloxone-sh…

The US Faces a Naloxone Shortage at the Worst Possible Time

Life expectancy in the United States plunged by a year and a half in 2020, the worst year-on-year change since ...

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🧵So long as drug use is criminalized, we will continue to see an ever-changing & dangerous #DrugSupply. As this @Filtermag_org coverage notes, some of the latest known data shows #Overdose rate increases in western U.S., w/ a slower decrease... bit.ly/WesternUSOverdoses

Overdose Data Show Two Paths Within Western Corridor of Rising Deaths

The most recent monthly provisional overdose death data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show the rate of ...

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Since 2018, Filter has covered harm reduction and issues intersecting the drug war. As we say goodbye, we’ll be sharing some of that coverage here. Because so many contributors have had lived experience, Filter published a rich catalog of personal essays: filtermag.org/hiv-syringe-ex…

Sharing Needles as Street Kids in LA, During the Rise of the HIV Epidemic

In 1990 Los Angeles, the kids who did sex work had communal syringes stashed in hiding places around the city. ...

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Since 2018, Filter has covered harm reduction and issues intersecting the drug war. As we say goodbye, we’ll be sharing some of that coverage here. Filter has been privileged to work with writers whose expertise made the site a resource for safer use: filtermag.org/injecting-shor…

How I Use Short-Tip Needles: A Harm Reduction Guide

[This article contains photographs and descriptions of injecting.] I‘ve been using opioids for 20 years, but injecting didn’t become ...

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"Emerging evidence suggests violence perpetrated against women who use & inject drugs may be worse than previously expected," writes Samantha Colledge-Frisby of her research. Yet anti-violence policies reflect "the invisibilization of women who use drugs." filtermag.org/violence-again…

We Need to Focus on Violence Against Women Who Use Drugs

Public attention to violence against women tends to surge in response to major events and movements, then recede just as ...

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Meth Overamps Come in Two Forms. Mostly the One We Don’t Talk About.

To people who don’t use meth, “overamp” means uncontrolled adrenaline. The term refers to overdose of stimulants and has come ...

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How Buying My Drugs Online Has Been Working for Me

Over the last year or so, I have been purchasing most of my supply of drugs—including fentanyl, cocaine, Xanax, MDMA ...

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Harm Reduction for Short-Term Meth Withdrawal

Withdrawal from opioids is so thoroughly studied that the process is regularly referenced in media and pop culture. Many symptoms ...

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Why I Microdose Suboxone, While Continuing to Use Lots of Fentanyl

Buprenorphine, one of the three Food and Drug Administration-approved medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) does not mix well with ...

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Safer Drinking During Desperate Times

We are all doing our best to adjust to the new “normal” in the COVID-19 era, while still trying to ...

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How I Freeze My Cottons, So As to Never Get Cotton Fever Again

The first time I ever got cotton fever, I thought it was just bad dope that had left me in ...

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Harm Reduction for the Syringes We Make in Prison

Harm reduction supplies are hard to come by in prison. In some facilities, people who inject drugs might use needles ...

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What I Learned From My First Injection Infection

[This article contains an image of injection wounds.] I had my first injection infection in the winter of 2020. I ...

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A Harm Reduction Guide to Better Booty-Bumping Kits

Every drug user I talk to regularly has heard my case for putting drugs up your butt. It’s a conversation ...

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What I Learned From My First Injection Infection

[This article contains an image of injection wounds.] I had my first injection infection in the winter of 2020. I ...

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How Wound Care Works in Prison, Without Doctors or Running Water

Most wound-care guidance in the United States is premised on access to potable water. Even for first aid in outdoor ...

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"The media industry has become somewhat aware that you can't overdose from touching fentanyl, while continuing to propagate other drug war myths every day." By @kastaliamedrano: filtermag.org/drug-war-myths…

The Drug War Myths People Still Believe

Fentanyl Is in Everything Around 2013, fentanyl started percolating in the United States street opioid supply, which was heroin-based ...

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We are very sorry to announce that Filter is shutting down this week, after eight years of publishing. It's a sad moment for those of us who have cared about the publication, writes EIC @godfreywill. But we have so much to be grateful for: filtermag.org/a-statement-ab…

A Statement About Filter

Filter is shutting down this week. We were unable to survive an increasingly difficult funding landscape, like too many other ...

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