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.

    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 ...

    Methadone Clinics Step Up Their Backlash Against Reform

    The members of the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (AATOD) are ...

    The FDA’s Unconscionable Campaign to Destroy Juul 

    Shock and disbelief. That’s what ripped through the tobacco harm reduction community when the ...

    NZ Hospital Leads the Way by Giving Vapes to Patients Who Smoke

    The Whanganui District Health Board (DHB) has announced that its hospital on New Zealand’s ...