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.

    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 ...

    Meet a Heavyweight Critic of Drug Courts and Therapeutic Communities

    Dr. Kerwin Kaye is associate professor of Sociology, Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies and American ...

    Dismantling NY Mag’s Disgraceful Hit-Job on Vaping

    New York Magazine ran an article this month—in its “Intelligencer” vertical, of all places—with ...

    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 ...

    Fab 5 Freddy Speaks Out Against the “Vaping Scare Campaign”

    Fab 5 Freddy, also known as Fred Brathwaite, is a man of prodigious talents. ...