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.

    Watch: A Documentary About Schizophrenia and Vaping

    Does anyone care that people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders have devastatingly high rates of ...

    Whiteout: A Searing Analysis of Racial Capitalism and Opioids

    Does the world really need another book that examines the opioid-involved overdose crisis? There’s ...

    Heated Tobacco Products Help People Quit Smoking, Even Unintentionally

    People who smoke switched entirely to using safer heated tobacco products when provided with ...

    Our Film Tour Is Exposing Methadone Clinics’ Cruelty

    Swallow THIS: A Documentary About Methadone and COVID-19 is currently on tour nationwide. Marilena ...

    Methadone Clinics Angry at Bad PR, But Not Afraid of SAMHSA

    The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) wants to revise outdated guidelines ...

    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 ...