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.

    Meet a Heavyweight Critic of Drug Courts and Therapeutic Communities

    Dr. Kerwin Kaye is associate professor of Sociology, Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies and American ...

    Dismantling NY Mag’s Disgraceful Hit-Job on Vaping

    New York Magazine ran an article this month—in its “Intelligencer” vertical, of all places—with ...

    International Experts Slam World Health Organization’s Deceptive Vaping Release

    The World Health Organization (WHO) published an astonishingly bad Q&A on electronic cigarettes on ...

    The Futile Cruelty of the US-Led Drug War in Afghanistan⁠—What Now?

    A report published last month by the Washington Post—The Afghanistan Papers: A secret history ...

    U-Haul’s Hateful Policy of Barring Nicotine Users From Employment

    U-Haul? More like U-Hate. The ubiquitous moving-and-storage company has made clear that it hates ...

    Fab 5 Freddy Speaks Out Against the “Vaping Scare Campaign”

    Fab 5 Freddy, also known as Fred Brathwaite, is a man of prodigious talents. ...

    Marijuana and Nicotine Are Trading Places as Prohibitionists’ Target

    I don’t much like Los Angeles. The obnoxious car culture, the clogged freeways, the ...

    Massachusetts, Planning Asset Forfeiture, Leads the War on Vaping

    One of the states to succumb to the national vaping panic—which rages on despite ...

    Grappling With the “Promise and Perils” of Public Health

    Speakers on a November 7 panel at the Drug Policy Alliance’s Reform conference in ...