Maia Szalavitz
Neuroscience Journalist, VICE.com, TIME.com ti.me/rWCQsZ, etc. Author, Unbroken Brain, Soros Justice Fellow
Last synced from Twitter 420d ago
If a Woman Drinks, It’s Her Fault. If a Man Drinks, It’s an Excuse
It's the 1980s all over again.
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If he drinks, the rape isn't his fault. If she drinks, it's hers. my latest
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Let’s Not Overstretch Neuroplasticity – NEO.LIFE
Sure, your brain is more dynamic than once thought. But harnessing those powers is tricky.
Special Response: Over 100 Researchers and Practitioners Respond to Rod Rosenstein on Safe Injection Sites
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is a letter coordinated by Kathleen Frydl, author of The Drug Wars in America, 1940-1973. In it, she and 101 signees respond to an op-ed published last month…
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Maia Szalavitz
Researchers, MDs and drug war historians respond to Rod Rosenstein's evidence-free NYT oped on overdose prevention sites. TLDR: they weren't impressed.
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I’m Sick of Photo Essays on the Opioid Crisis Missing a Major Part of the Story: Recovery
Yes, they’re trying to help, but they feel misleadingly hopeless.
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Maia Szalavitz
Read @ZachWritesStuff great new Slate piece on addiction disaster porn & the harm it does right now!
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What the media gets wrong about opioids
<p>After Jillian Bauer-Reese created an online collection of opioid recovery stories, she began to get calls for help from reporters. But she was dismayed by the narrowness of the requests, which sought only one type of interviewee. “They were...
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In this piece for Columbia Journalism Review, I describe how the media has conveyed the misguided narrative @StefanKertesz details— and how we can do better
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finally someone (other than us ;-) notices that these books present a flawed narrative about addiction, suggesting it is created by supply, which drives ineffective approaches like PDMPs & ignores pain nybooks.com/articles/2018/… see also cjr.org/covering_the_h… /1
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Addiction Doesn’t Always Last a Lifetime
In fact, most addicts recover, often on their own. Here are some of their stories.
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Spread the word: most people with opioid addiction actually recover, it just doesn't always look like what you think, my latest
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Saying No to Drugs Isn’t an Answer to Addiction
Why one Ottawa doctor believes harm reduction is the most effective treatment for drug use
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Maia Szalavitz
meeting people where they are allows the most troubled people to stabilize & function far better, excellent feature
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In Colonie, Schumer pushes opioid bill to safeguard first responders
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer stopped in Colonie Monday to campaign for a bill he says would help the Capital Region fight back against the opioid epidemic.
Flanked by Colonie police officers and paramedics, the Senate Minority Leader explained that...
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attention journalists: if it was "deadly even to touch" fentanyl, how come we don't see dead dealers everywhere & why do ppl bother to shoot it? timesunion.com/news/article/I… this is absurd, use Google tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/…
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There's a Dangerous Rumor Circulating About Fentanyl
You can't overdose on the opioid just by touching it.
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Maia Szalavitz
attention journalists: if it was "deadly even to touch" fentanyl, how come we don't see dead dealers everywhere & why do ppl bother to shoot it? timesunion.com/news/article/I… this is absurd, use Google tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/…
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How the opioid crackdown is backfiring
Hundreds of chronic pain patients responding to a POLITICO survey describe being refused opioid prescriptions they had relied on for years with sometimes devastating consequences.
Forcing Pain Patients Off Their Meds Won't End the Opioid Crisis
It might seem like a good idea to target the small number of people who use the most opioids, but a plan proposed in Oregon won't reduce the number of overdoses or new addictions.
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Targeting Chronic Pain Patients Reduces a Number that Pleases Bureaucrats— Hurts Everything Else, my latest
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Why Everyone Should Have Naloxone at Home, Says Advocate Dan Bigg
Through the work of his nonprofit organization, the Chicago Recovery Alliance, Dan Bigg has helped save thousands of lives from drug overdose. Bigg, personally, has saved at least six. One night a few years ago, for example, Bigg was doing outreach...
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Maia Szalavitz
Was your life or that of a loved one saved by naloxone outside a hospital or ambulance? Chances are good that this man was responsible nationswell.com/life-saving-dr… a terrible loss to all..
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These Drug Users Don't Want Their Dealer Prosecuted if They OD
"I love my friends and I love the people I hang out with and I don't want anybody going to jail because of my behavior."
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Last Will Project has people risking overdose saying "Not in my Name" to homicide prosecutions for friends, dealers... my latest
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In San Francisco, Opioid Addiction Treatment Offered on the Streets
City health workers are handing out buprenorphine prescriptions to homeless people in hopes of getting them into treatment.
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it remains astonishing how controversial it is for doctors to save lives first when the life in question is that of a person who uses drugs
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Book Deals: Week of August 20, 2018
In this week’s column, Norton buys a debut novel at auction; Berkley buys two from Bently; Orbit invests in a new trilogy by Merbeth; and more in this week's notable book deals.
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Oregon Medicaid program could cut off chronic pain patients from opioids
Officials are considering a first-in-the-nation proposal that would end coverage for opioids for chronic pain patients enrolled in Oregon’s Medicaid program
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Maia Szalavitz
nice piece, but buried the lede... three acupuncturists & a chiropractor (and apparently, no patients) on board planning to cut off opioids for all chronic pain pts in Oregon on Medicaid
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State shuts down Pasadena-based ‘Celebrity Rehab’ center over death, repeated violations
The Pasadena Recovery Center says it is trying to resolve the issues that prompted a temporary suspension of its license by the Department of Health Care Services.
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Maia Szalavitz
about time pasadenastarnews.com/2018/08/04/sta… now, can we stop using the guy who promoted this place & policies that reject evidence as an "expert"?
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The Wrong Way to Fight a Drug War
The Philippines has undertaken a brutal battle against “shabu,” or crystal methamphetamine. But the government needs to go after another target entirely.
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there is no right way to fight a war on drugs. drugs don't turn people into criminals, drug laws do. nytimes.com/2018/08/08/opi… criminalizing poverty & addiction never works, except as a terror tactic, which is what's happening here
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The Worst-Case Scenario for Video Game 'Addiction' Treatment Is Rehab Hell
If the cure looks anything like "solutions" to drug addiction, this could get ugly.
In Duterte’s Philippines, Having a Beer Can Now Land You in Jail
More than 50,000 Filipinos have been locked up for offenses as trivial as drinking in public or being outdoors without a shirt.
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sickening and horrifying. but note also the absolute refusal to recognize that alcohol, is, actually... a drug
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