Helen Redmond

    Helen is Filter‘s senior editor and a multimedia journalist. Her debut book is Liquid Handcuffs: Policing and Punishment in Methadone Clinics and the Future of Opioid Addiction Treatment. She is also a filmmaker; her two documentaries about methadone, Liquid Handcuffs and Swallow THIS, have screened nationally and internationally. Helen is an adjunct assistant professor at New York University.

    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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    Don’t “Defund” the War on Drugs⁠—Cut It Off

    It took the caught-on-camera murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin—and ...

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    Hong Kong’s Rejection of Vapes Ban Could Have Welcome Influence

    The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) has won an important ...

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    How India Introduced Methadone Take-Homes in the Pandemic

    “Dear Helen, You will be pleased to know that during the COVID-19 pandemic and ...

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