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. Edwin Salsitz is a methadone OG. He was one of a coterie of New York City doctors who pioneered…
Why would anyone visit the DEA Museum? My excuse was to see all the lies and misinformation in one place.…
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Praised by politicians, parents and presidents, police officers taught DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) to fifth and sixth-grade students in…
A long white van, stocked with clear plastic cups and a machine that dispenses liquid methadone, was launched in New…