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. Helen is an adjunct assistant professor and teaches a course about the War on Drugs at NYU. She lives in Harlem.
People on methadone in the United States have been thrown under the bus yet again amid the continuing devastation of…
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One of the most intriguing emails I have ever received hit my inbox in 2021. This, in part, is how…