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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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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2 months ago |
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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Sep 6, 2024 |
filtermag.org | Helen Redmond
When more people in harm reduction are considering how to integrate tobacco harm reduction into their work with people who use drugs, it’s important to learn from those who are already doing it. Adriana Curado is a harm reductionist and community researcher with Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos (Group of Activists in Treatment) in Lisbon, Portugal. She was previously a coordinator of a mobile overdose prevention center there.
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