Helen is Filter‘s senior editor and a multimedia journalist. Her debut book is Liquid Handcuffs: Policing and Punishment in Methadone Clinics and the Future of Opioid Addiction Treatment. She is also a filmmaker; her two documentaries about methadone, Liquid Handcuffs and Swallow THIS, have screened nationally and internationally. Helen is an adjunct assistant professor at New York University.
Beware a “Dear Colleague” letter from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) that offers “updated guidance” on…
Quitting smoking is hard, and anything that might help should be thoroughly explored, particularly when we know different options work…
Clockwork Orange-like images show a sweating, terrified young man in a dark laboratory with a black metal contraption on his…
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Given what the methadone clinic system subjects them to, is it really a surprise that people who take the medication…
A new National Methadone Access and Quality Commission has been created by the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE). It…
The speeches at the press conference in Harlem were a distillation of stigmatizing ideas about methadone, clinics and patients that…
Adolescent drug use often triggers moral panics, fear-mongering and the passage of draconian laws to “keep the kids safe” by…
One of the many controversies around vaping nicotine is the impact on the enviroment—particularly of disposable, single-use vapes. When this…