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.

    SAMHSA, the DEA Could Have Freed Methadone Any Time Since the 1970s

    Can you imagine that since the 1970s, the two federal agencies that control the ...

    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 ...

    “Gone With the Smoke”—San Francisco Harm Reductionist Talks Vapes

    Jason Norelli is a harm reduction navigation manager at Glide in San Francisco. I interviewed ...

    Vaping Works Better Than Nicotine Patches for Pregnant Smokers

    A new study published in Nature Medicine found that pregnant smokers were more likely ...

    The Methadone Clinic System Needs Abolition, Not a Tepid Reform Bill

    Peter Vanderkloot’s groundbreaking article—Methadone: Medicine, Harm Reduction or Social Control—hit me hard. As a ...

    Vapes and Methadone: An All-Round Harm Reduction Story

    Danielle Russell is a third-year PhD student at Arizona State University, and a co-investigator ...