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.

    International Experts Slam World Health Organization’s Deceptive Vaping Release

    The World Health Organization (WHO) published an astonishingly bad Q&A on electronic cigarettes on ...

    The Futile Cruelty of the US-Led Drug War in Afghanistan⁠—What Now?

    A report published last month by the Washington Post—The Afghanistan Papers: A secret history ...

    U-Haul’s Hateful Policy of Barring Nicotine Users From Employment

    U-Haul? More like U-Hate. The ubiquitous moving-and-storage company has made clear that it hates ...

    Grappling With the “Promise and Perils” of Public Health

    Speakers on a November 7 panel at the Drug Policy Alliance’s Reform conference in ...

    Eric Garner’s Mother Speaks Out Against Proposed NYC Menthols Ban

    Gwendolyn Carr, the mother of  Eric Garner—who was killed by NYPD police officer Daniel ...

    New York’s Vape Flavor Ban Has Been Blocked—For Now

    In a victory for vapers and vape shop owners, a state appellate court imposed ...