FDA Authorizes NJOY Vapes in Its Biggest Positive Decision Yet
WEBApr 26, 2022 · Alex was formerly Filter’s news editor.He previously worked as a reporter and copy editor at VICE, and has been published in the New York Times Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, the Los Angeles Times and the New Republic, among other outlets.He was also previously a freelance editorial consultant for the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World; The Influence Foundation, which operates ...
No Drug Education: The Rise and Fall of DARE - Filter
WEBMay 1, 2024 · P raised by politicians, parents and presidents, police officers taught DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) to fifth and sixth-grade students in around 75 percent of United States school districts at the peak of its popularity in the 1980s and ‘90s. Funded by the US government, the program was exported to dozens of other countries, too. . Altogether, DARE reached an estimated 50 million ...
Nicotine 101: The Truth About What It Is and What it Does - Filter
WEBMar 11, 2019 · I n July 2017, an announcement by the FDA declared that the agency “places nicotine, and the issue of addiction, at the center of the agency’s tobacco regulation efforts.”. It’s no surprise that with this renewed focus on nicotine—and ensuing FDA-driven fear-mongering surrounding products that contain the substance, even if they don’t involve combustion of tobacco—people are more ...
Many People Left to Make Their Own Stimulant Pipes and Face
WEBSep 27, 2023 · A cross the globe, people who use stimulants have devised creative, sometimes ingenious, smoking tools. Often used to heat up and inhale crack cocaine or methamphetamine, these homemade implements are regularly made of whatever’s available—particularly in jurisdictions where access to new pipes and stems, such as through safer smoking kit programs, is banned.
At Hostile COP10, Threats to Tobacco Harm Reduction Postponed
WEBFeb 20, 2024 · Kiran is a tobacco harm reduction fellow for Filter.She is a writer and journalist who has written for publications including the Guardian, the Telegraph, I Paper and the Times, among many others.Her book, I Can Hear the Cuckoo, was published by Gaia in 2023.She lives in Wales.
Starting Bupe From Fentanyl Can Be a Nightmare. Microdosing
WEBMay 7, 2020 · Elizabeth is a journalist from the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared in publications including Vox, Tonic/Vice, TalkPoverty, HealthyPlace and The Establishment.She has an MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University.
21 to Drink? The Debate Around America’s Outlier Status - Filter
WEBAug 26, 2020 · A merica’s minimum drinking age law, set nationally at 21 since 1984, appears to be written in stone. But in 2008, a glossy campaign to lower the drinking age, called the Amethyst Initiative, shook up the age-old debate about youth drinking for the first time in decades.
Prison “K2”: The Hidden Center of a Chaotic New Drug War - Filter
WEBNov 28, 2022 · B ack when I was running with biker gangs, we used to play a game called Crash or Fly. Someone would come to the clubhouse with a Chivas Regal bag, you’d reach in blind, and whatever you pulled you had to eat. Might be a micro dot of acid, might be a baby aspirin, might be speed or horse tranquilizer.
“Wasp Dope”—Under Prohibition, Insecticide Becomes Meth
WEBDec 3, 2020 · I n Appalachian Kentucky, drug users’ difficulty accessing unregulated markets may be driving the uptake of a novel psychoactive substance in proportions comparable to the region’s cocaine use, according to the first known epidemiological report on its prevalence.. Between February 2018 and April 2019, one in six participants involved in a University of Kentucky study surveying 278 drug ...
Hip Hop and Harm Reduction on Tour - Filter
WEBAug 30, 2021 · Morgan is a writer from Portland, Oregon. She founded Beats Overdose, a harm reduction provider for the music and entertainment industry.She is a research associate with Health in Justice Action Lab and a councilmember on Oregon’s decriminalization Measure 110 Oversight and Accountability Council. Morgan is also a member of the board of directors of The Influence Foundation, which operates ...