Maia Szalavitz Makes the Case for Harm Reduction Policies in Blue Cities
About this episode
Maia Szalavitz discusses harm reduction policies and her experiences with addiction and drug reform.
Maia Szalavitz, a prominent neuroscience journalist and progressive drug reform champion who has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Salon and other publications, is the author, among other books, of Undoing Drugs (2021), a stirring history of the harm reduction movement. A former cocaine and heroin addict, Szalavitz is one of the country’s foremost journalistic critics of the war on Drugs era, and she remains a fierce proponent of non-punitive approaches t...
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