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2024年10月31日 · Filter sits down with Dr. Marewa Glover, to discuss New Zealand’s successful adoption of tobacco harm reduction. 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. DOJ Investigation Found Horrors in Georgia Prisons.
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Massachusetts Voters Reject Psychedelic Legalization Measure
2 天之前 · I n a result with major implications for the United States psychedelic movement, Massachusetts voters resoundingly rejected a ballot initiative to decriminalize psychedelic drugs and legalize therapeutic use.. At publication time, with 90 percent of votes counted, the outcome on the state ballot’s Question 4 had been called. The running totals stood at 56.9 percent opposed and 43.1 percent ...
Documents Shed New Light on the FDA’s Vape Authorization …
2022年5月26日 · 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 ...
How We Practice Tobacco Harm Reduction in Prison, With No Vapes
4 天之前 · The chew, now slightly dried out, is wrapped with a piece of copper wire, thin, like speaker wire, with the ends hanging off. Attaching one end of the wire to the bare spot in the battery with a piece of tape, you then hold the other end of the wire to the little post on the positive end of the battery.
“Never Seen Anything Work Like This”—Pioneer on NZ’s Vaping …
2024年10月31日 · In recent years, Māori people have not only switched to vaping on a large scale but are also manufacturing e-liquids and opening vape shops. “I’ve never seen anything work like this,” Glover says. Progress was “so slow” for much of her 30 years in the field. But in the past decade, Māori daily smoking prevalence has plunged from 38 ...
When People Ask Harm Reductionists, “What About Treatment?”
2024年1月8日 · 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.
Two Years After Oakland’s Psychedelic Decrim, What’s Been ... - Filter
by Alexander Lekhtman August 2, 2021. O ver two years ago, in June 2019, the city of Oakland, California became the first in the US to decriminalize plant-based entheogens including psilocybin, iboga, ayahuasca and mescaline cacti. Since then, the reform seems to be having its intended effect of preventing arrests for these substances.
Watch: Stigma Hampers Recruitment for Nicotine Research - Filter
2023年10月16日 · Helen is Filter‘s senior editor and a multimedia journalist. She is on the methadone, vaping and nicotine train. Helen is also a filmmaker. Her two documentaries about methadone are Liquid Handcuffs and Swallow THIS.As an LCSW, she has worked with people who use drugs for over two decades.
Use + Harm Reduction Archives - Filter
FilterMag; Use + Harm Reduction; Laypeople Administering Naloxone More Often, Per 911-Call Data. In cases where 911 is called, more bystanders than previously have been using naloxone ...