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.

    Biden Has a COVID Plan, But Won’t Learn Deeper Health Care Lessons

    Donald Trump, the corrupt, narcissistic demagogue, has left the Whitehouse in the midst of ...

    Ten Photos From 2020 That Reflect 2021’s Biggest Challenges

    Few years in living memory have been as dramatic and distressing as 2020, and ...

    Burning Issues: A Call to Liberate Vapes and Vapers

    “Tobacco harm reduction is good public health and health promotion, starting with the people ...

    COPD Patients Who Switch From Smoking to Vaping See Long-Term Benefits

    Researchers at the Center of Excellence for the Acceleration of Harm Reduction (CoEHAR*) in ...

    Māori Women Benefit From a Harm Reduction Approach to Smoking

    Smoking rates among Indigenous peoples have remained stubbornly high around the world, despite stigmatizing ...

    The LEAD Program Faces a Reckoning for Centering Police

    The murder of George Floyd and the explosion of protests against police terror led ...

    New York Times Breonna Taylor Piece Embraces Drug-War Narratives

    Remarkably, a recent 6,000-word New York Times investigative article about Breonna Taylor doesn’t mention ...

    California Ramps Up the War on Vaping With Flavor Ban

    They never stop. Tobacco control organizations in California convinced the California Assembly to pass ...

    Anti-Vaping Forces Again Leverage COVID to Seek Prohibition

    California’s tobacco research mob, obsessed with youth vaping and hell-bent on enacting total vaping ...