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.

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    The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) wants to revise outdated guidelines ...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

    Mexico’s Government Thinks Criminalization Will Stamp Out Smoking

    If you thought Mexico’s drug war was only about illegal drugs like fentanyl or ...

    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 ...