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.

    Scrutinizing the Foster System’s Relationship With the War on Drugs

    So many aspects of the racist War on Drugs—stop-and-frisk, mandatory minimum sentencing for crack ...

    Don’t “Defund” the War on Drugs⁠—Cut It Off

    It took the caught-on-camera murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin—and ...

    Hong Kong’s Rejection of Vapes Ban Could Have Welcome Influence

    The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) has won an important ...

    How India Introduced Methadone Take-Homes in the Pandemic

    “Dear Helen, You will be pleased to know that during the COVID-19 pandemic and ...

    Anti-Vaping Zealots Find Opportunity in the Pandemic

    “We have to seize this moment,” said Laurie Rubiner, executive vice president of the ...

    Exit Bernie, as the Disaster of Our Healthcare “System” Is Unmasked

    Think about this fact: GoFundMe, the leading fundraising platform, reports that one in three ...

    SAMHSA’s Absurd Criteria for Identifying “Stable” Methadone Patients

    For decades, methadone reform advocates have tried to loosen or remove the highly restrictive ...