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.

    The Mystery Lung Disease Caused by “Vaping” Was a Textbook Drug Panic

    The opportunity that tobacco harm reduction haters have been waiting for finally arrived. On ...

    Watch: “Not One More!” Harlem Residents on Overdose Deaths

    To mark International Overdose Awareness Day, I went out on the streets of Harlem ...

    Man Who Died of OD Was Allegedly “Kicked Out of Treatment for Smoking”

    I can’t lose everything,” Paul Reithlinghshoefer told his mother when he relapsed back to ...

    El Chapo’s Trial Was a Drug-War Propaganda Circus

    Extraditing drug dealers from around the world to stand trial in the States is ...

    Nicotine Testing for High Schoolers Is a Drug War-Style Disaster

    As the so-called epidemic of teen vaping continues to garner sensational headlines—“Why vaping is ...

    Filter Video: Inside Portugal’s First Mobile Safe Consumption Site

    In April of this year, Portugal, a country well known for having decriminalized all ...

    US Arrival of Heat-Not-Burn Is Another Option for Smokers to Switch

    Last week the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved IQOS, a device that delivers ...

    Cops Morphing Into Social Workers Is Not a Solution

    All across the US, law enforcement asserts its power through its sheer visibility in ...