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.
Dr. Paul Newhouse has been researching nicotine for over 30 years. He’s been doing this since long before nicotine became…
For decades, the war-torn country of Afghanistan has been the world’s largest producer of illicit opiates (opium, heroin and morphine).…
One of the most intriguing emails I have ever received hit my inbox in 2021. This, in part, is how…
When I interviewed Kim Dabelstein Petersen in the back of an empty midtown-Manhattan coffee shop, he had just attended a…
The American Society for Addiction Medicine (ASAM) successfully fought to prevent expansion of methadone prescribing to a wide range of…
The Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN) has just been held for the 10th time. It’s been a helluva decade! GFN…
Does anyone care that people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders have devastatingly high rates of smoking? Research has found the prevalence…
Does the world really need another book that examines the opioid-involved overdose crisis? There’s no shortage of tomes devoted to…
People who smoke switched entirely to using safer heated tobacco products when provided with them, found an important new study—even…
Swallow THIS: A Documentary About Methadone and COVID-19 is currently on tour nationwide. Marilena Marchetti and I made the film…