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.

    Massachusetts Post-Menthols Ban: Mixed Smoking Impacts, More Policing

    Massachusetts is experiencing the aftershocks of menthol prohibition. In 2020, the Bay State became ...

    Evidence Is In on Vapes as Smoking Cessation. Now We Need Urgency.

    In a comment published in Nature Medicine, four leading researchers marshal the evidence that ...

    The Tech Companies Policing Methadone Patients for Profit

    Apparently, fingernails and hair create “layers of drug history.” At the Association for the ...

    SAMHSA’s Methadone Reforms Toothless Until We End Clinics’ Power

    The COVID-19 pandemic and record overdose tolls have continued to pressure the Substance Abuse ...

    Methadone Clinics’ Conference Felt Like Being Behind Enemy Lines

    Attending the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (AATOD) conference, held in ...

    A Long-Awaited Harm Reduction Gathering in Puerto Rico

    Puerto Rico was the location for the National Harm Reduction Conference from October 13-16—the ...

    Make It Make Sense: The Confusing Terminology Around Safer Nicotine

    Nicotine vapes contain no tobacco but are routinely called “tobacco products.” A 2019 lung ...