Helen Redmond

    Helen is Filters 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.

    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 ...

    Eric Garner’s Mother Speaks Out Against Proposed NYC Menthols Ban

    Gwendolyn Carr, the mother of  Eric Garner—who was killed by NYPD police officer Daniel ...

    New York’s Vape Flavor Ban Has Been Blocked—For Now

    In a victory for vapers and vape shop owners, a state appellate court imposed ...

    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 ...