Helen Redmond

    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.

    Burning Issues: A Call to Liberate Vapes and Vapers

    “Tobacco harm reduction is good public health and health promotion, starting with the people ...

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    COPD Patients Who Switch From Smoking to Vaping See Long-Term Benefits

    Researchers at the Center of Excellence for the Acceleration of Harm Reduction (CoEHAR*) in ...

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    Māori Women Benefit From a Harm Reduction Approach to Smoking

    Smoking rates among Indigenous peoples have remained stubbornly high around the world, despite stigmatizing ...

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    The LEAD Program Faces a Reckoning for Centering Police

    The murder of George Floyd and the explosion of protests against police terror led ...

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    “The Drum Beat in My Head Gets Louder”—Meet DPA’s New Leader

    “Is it going to be Kassandra?” There’s a reason that question was asked over ...

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    New York Times Breonna Taylor Piece Embraces Drug-War Narratives

    Remarkably, a recent 6,000-word New York Times investigative article about Breonna Taylor doesn’t mention ...

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    California Ramps Up the War on Vaping With Flavor Ban

    They never stop. Tobacco control organizations in California convinced the California Assembly to pass ...

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    Anti-Vaping Forces Again Leverage COVID to Seek Prohibition

    California’s tobacco research mob, obsessed with youth vaping and hell-bent on enacting total vaping ...

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    Gasping for Justice: People Jailed in the Pandemic Refuse to Be Silenced

    What do you do if you want the voices of incarcerated people at the ...

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    Scrutinizing the Foster System’s Relationship With the War on Drugs

    So many aspects of the racist War on Drugs—stop-and-frisk, mandatory minimum sentencing for crack ...

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