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WEB5 days ago · Filter speaks with harm reduction activists in the Philippines, who work in the face of President Duterte’s murderous drug war. Participants in a vaping group at Saint Ann’s Corner of Harm Reduction, a pioneering syringe services provider in New York, describe their experiences of switching from cigarettes.
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WEBFilter launched in September 2018 and is based in New York City. Our mission is to advocate through journalism for rational and compassionate approaches to drug use, drug policy and human rights. Filter is owned and operated by The Influence Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. You can read about The Influence Foundation’s structure and funding here.
Documents Shed New Light on the FDA’s Vape Authorization …
WEBMay 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 ...
CA Proposes "Treatment-Mandated Felony" Sentence for Drug …
WEB6 days ago · I n 2014, California voters passed a ballot initiative that punished most drug possession and shoplifting as misdemeanors rather than felonies. For the past decade under Prop 47, these convictions have largely not involved jail time. In November, voters will decide whether to undo that with Prop 36, which among other increased penalties would create a new category of “treatment-mandated ...
The Prison Mail Bans Aren't About Fentanyl. They're About …
WEBSep 23, 2024 · They’re About Understaffing. O n September 19, Senator Robert Casey (D-PA) introduced legislation that would require the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to begin digitally scanning all incoming mail, including legal mail, for people in its custody. S 5128, the Interdiction of Fentanyl at Federal Prisons Act, comes one month after unconfirmed ...
Marijuana and Working Memory: Research Contradicts Stereotypes
WEBSep 20, 2024 · R esearchers looking into the effects of medical marijuana use on brain processes say in a new federally funded paper, published by the American Medical Association, that cognitive attributes such as working memory, reward processing and inhibitory control were not significantly affected after a year of cannabis consumption.. The results appear to run contrary to long-held stereotypes about ...
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WEBFilterMag; Intersections + Injustice; For Black and Brown Communities, the Overdose Crisis Is Still Escalating. This International Overdose Awareness Day, VOCAL-US state chapters—VOCAL-NY, VOCAL-TX and VOCAL-KY—are taking direct action ...
Study Does Not Show Vapes Cause Cancer, Still Sparks Alarmism
WEBApr 9, 2024 · A recent study sparked headlines about cancer risk from vapes, but what does it actually show us?. The research, published in the Cancer Research journal, found “ similar ” changes in cheek cells among people who vape and those who smoke.. Lead author Chiara Herzog, of the University of Innsbruck and University College London, told Filter that the aim was to investigate impacts of both ...
When People Ask Harm Reductionists, “What About Treatment?”
WEBJan 8, 2024 · Top photograph via Pxhere/Public Domain. This article is excerpted, with permission, from The Harm Reduction Gap: Helping Individuals Left Behind by Conventional Drug Prevention and Abstinence-Only Addiction Treatment, authored by Sheila P. Vakharia and published by Routledge in 2024.. The Harm Reduction Gap is now available to order from Routledge, among other outlets.
At Hostile COP10, Threats to Tobacco Harm Reduction Postponed
WEBFeb 20, 2024 · At Hostile COP10, Threats to Tobacco Harm Reduction Postponed. by Kiran Sidhu February 20, 2024. T he worst threats of the World Health Organization’s COP10 tobacco control conference to global harm reduction access were averted, for now. The WHO’s 10th Conference of the Parties to its Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) finally ...