
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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3 weeks 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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2 months ago |
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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Oct 8, 2024 |
filtermag.org | Helen Redmond
“Harm reduction for tobacco is essential in our world,” says Jerry Otero. “So many of the people that I work with smoke cigarettes.”Otero has been practicing harm reduction for over two decades with people who use banned drugs and face many challenges, like homelessness, in New York City. He’s currently the manager of the Drug User Health Hub at St. Ann’s Corner of Harm Reduction.
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