Helen Redmond
Senior Editor and Multimedia Journalist at Filter
Senior Editor/Multimedia Journo, https://t.co/v5hLD6mnxU… nicotine, vaping, methadone, co-director Swallow THIS: A Documentary About Methadone & COVID-19
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5 days ago |
filtermag.org | Helen Redmond
The history of harm reduction in the United States, led by people who use drugs, needs to be remembered, celebrated and understood—especially as a backlash full of lies and disinformation about what harm reduction means is unleashed across the country and beyond. A piece of that radical history is currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art-affiliated MOMA PS1 in Queens, New York.
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1 month ago |
filtermag.org | Helen Redmond
Dr. Edwin Salsitz is a methadone OG. He was one of a coterie of New York City doctors who pioneered its use to treat opioid use disorder back in the 1980s, including Drs. Vincent Dole, Marie Nyswander and Mary Jeanne Kreek—physicians who researched methadone at Rockefeller University. Salsitz is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. It was there that he worked with the legendary, fierce methadone advocate Dr. Robert Newman.
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Feb 23, 2025 |
marijuanamoment.net | Helen Redmond
“The fiction that permeates the museum is that DEA is somehow winning a drug war that is justified.”By Helen Redmond, FilterWhy would anyone visit the DEA Museum? My excuse was to see all the lies and misinformation in one place. And I wanted to understand how the curators sold and sanitized the war on drugs. I was not disappointed. On the museum website, I got a preview of how brazen it would be.
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Feb 13, 2025 |
filtermag.org | Helen Redmond
Why would anyone visit the DEA Museum? My excuse was to see all the lies and misinformation in one place. And I wanted to understand how the curators sold and sanitized the “War on Drugs.” I was not disappointed. On the museum website, I got a preview of how brazen it would be. An online exhibition about Harry Anslinger is called, “A Life of Service.” For three decades, Anslinger was the Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the forerunner of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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Oct 31, 2024 |
filtermag.org | Helen Redmond
Dr. Marewa Glover has dedicated her life to helping people stop smoking in New Zealand. Her hard work has paid off. The country’s smoking rate has almost halved in just five years. The reason for the massive decrease is the availability of safer nicotine products like vapes, and government endorsement of tobacco harm reduction. “Once the government regulated and legalized vaping, they said if you can’t stop smoking any other way, switch to vaping,” Glover says in the Filter video above.
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