Maia Szalavitz is an award-winning, best-selling author and opinion writer, whose focus is on changing the narrative of addiction and recovery. Two of her books Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction and Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction, are among a long list of publications that address this growing need for rebuilding a broken system.
In this podcast, she talks about:
Her New York Times opinion piece about Oregon decriminalizing drug possession
How external force undermines internal motivation
How the Black Lives Matter Movement showed the racial disparities in the justice
system
That criminal drug laws aren’t based on science and how emotions are decision
algorithms
The debate over decriminalization is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of
what actually works
Explaining the analogy of addiction to that of falling in love or having a baby; people
do crazy things
People with addiction are not lazy, they are hurting
Trying to punish our way out of addiction is not the answer
Why it’s important to meet people where they are and welcome them to treatment
Not calling it Medically Assisted Treatment (MAT)
Why we need more expansive definitions of recovery
How chronic pain patients are being negatively affected by the opioid epidemic
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