Helen Redmond

    Helen is Filter‘s 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.

    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 ...

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    Make It Make Sense: The Confusing Terminology Around Safer Nicotine

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

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    A State-by-State Guide to the Cruelty of the Methadone Clinic System

    A chart book of blue national maps newly compiled by Pew Charitable Trusts is ...

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    Extracting Juul Settlement Is About the Money, Not the Truth

    Juul is back in the news, this time for tentatively agreeing to pay a ...

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    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 ...

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    Replication Study Confirms Vapes Reduce Heart Risks Compared to Cigarettes

    A new in vitro study shows that aerosols from nicotine vapes do not produce ...

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    Methadone Clinics Step Up Their Backlash Against Reform

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

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    The FDA’s Unconscionable Campaign to Destroy Juul 

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

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    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 ...

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    “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 ...

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