Maia Szalavitz
Neuroscience Journalist, , , etc. Author, Unbroken Brain, Soros Justice Fellow
Last synced from Twitter 598d ago
‘I’m trying not to die right now’: Why opioid-addicted patients are still searching for help
POLITICO 211d 4 tweets
Access and accountability are still huge barriers in the growing treatment industry.
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Maia Szalavitz Nice: same program, one track for rich ppl who get medication & more compassionate care, the other for poor/coerced pts who get the same old tough love, abstinence confrontation that we know does harm 210d
The Unbelievable Story Of The Plot Against George Soros
Hannes Grassegger - BuzzFeed News 211d 46 tweets
How two Jewish American political consultants helped create the world’s largest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
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Maia Szalavitz The political consultants who demonized drugs for Nixon & Soros for Hungary 211d
Addictive Drugs Should Not be Marketed, Period
Tonic 212d 1 tweets
New findings about the pressure to sell OxyContin reveals a lot about the opioid crisis.
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Maia Szalavitz It's insane that marketing opioids is legal, my latest 212d
All the Things the New Anti-Weed Crusade Gets Horribly Wrong
Vice 216d 2 tweets
It's Reefer Madness all over again, somehow.
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Maia Szalavitz Was Reefer Madness a documentary after all? My latest on the most recent iteration of marijuana: threat or menace? 216d
Harder to Treat Than Leukemia — Opioid Use Disorder in Survivors of Cancer | NEJM
New England Journal of Medicine 235d 15 tweets
Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Harder to Treat Than Leukemia — Opioid Use Disorder in Survivors of Cancer
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Maia Szalavitz this is a strange article. doesn't mention till halfway thru that such cases are rare, doesn't say what should have been done (leave pain untreated so she drops out & dies of cancer?) & doesn't note that forced tapering probably *caused* the OD 235d
The Radical New Fentanyl Trend That Could Save Lives and Screw Dealers
Vice 271d 1 tweets
One $5 or $10 fatal dose could become dozens or even hundreds of nonfatal highs.
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Maia Szalavitz how properly diluting fentanyl might save lives & screw dealers & other possible ways to reduce harm, my latest 271d
Opioid Nation
The New York Review of Books 274d 8 tweets
The opioid epidemic is usually seen as a supply problem. If we can interdict the supply of prescription opioids, the thinking goes, we can stanch the epidemic. But that is unlikely to work for two reasons. First, this is no longer mainly an epidemic...
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Maia Szalavitz 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 see also /1 274d
This Is How to Get Health Insurance to Cover Treatment for Opioid Addiction
Tonic 285d 1 tweets
Although the Affordable Care Act is supposed to guarantee addiction treatment to anyone with insurance, people with opioid addictions still face a dysfunctional system.
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Maia Szalavitz I tried to write a guide for getting insurance to cover opioid addiction... much harder than it should be... 285d
What billionaires want: the secret influence of America’s 100 richest
the Guardian 292d 6 tweets
A new study reveals how the wealthy engage in ‘stealth politics’: quietly advancing unpopular, inequality-exacerbating, highly conservative policies
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Maia Szalavitz "good" billionaires are honest about their agendas— the rest are silent and support their own interests 286d
Patient deaths bring scrutiny to drug and alcohol addiction treatment centers
USA TODAY 310d 2 tweets
Lawsuits and deaths have drawn scrutiny and raise questions about oversight of the addiction-treatment industry
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Maia Szalavitz stigma kills: how a rehab shill replies to a pt's request for medical care ""Patients undergoing withdrawal frequently request transfers to hospitals in the hopes of relieving anxiety or in the hopes of obtaining drugs" 310d
Deep Systemic Change: My 10 Steps to Transform Addiction Treatment
Filtermag.org 313d 2 tweets
As panel after summit after commission after white paper is put forward claiming to solve the overdose crisis, you’d think ...
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Maia Szalavitz What we need for a better addiction treatment system, my latest 313d
Net worth v self worth: do we all need inequality therapy?
Maia Szalavitz - the Guardian 314d 1 tweets
Inequality isn’t just changing the way we deal with economics – it’s perversely altering how we see ourselves and what we value
Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father
Nytimes.com 320d 261 tweets
The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s.
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Maia Szalavitz All I want to know is why this investigation wasn't conducted and published *before* the election 320d
Why taking drugs to treat addiction doesn't mean you're 'still addicted'
STAT 823d 10 tweets
People taking methadone or buprenorphine to treat addiction are dependent on opioids, but they are not addicted, as they are often portrayed.
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Maia Szalavitz Here's an article I wrote w/ about the life & death importance of distinguishing between addiction and dependence 322d
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Maia Szalavitz References: WashPost NEJM NIDA head on adxn v dependence Me & 164d
The impact of medically supervised injection centres on drug-related harms: A meta-analysis
International Journal of Drug Policy 375d 6 tweets
Medically Supervised Injection Centres (MSICs) are legally-sanctioned facilities where users can consume pre-obtained drugs under medical supervision. Although there is a substantial body of research exploring their effectiveness, there have been...
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Maia Szalavitz whoa!!! cc via 326d
If a Woman Drinks, It’s Her Fault. If a Man Drinks, It’s an Excuse
Vice 328d 1 tweets
It's the 1980s all over again.
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Maia Szalavitz If he drinks, the rape isn't his fault. If she drinks, it's hers. my latest 328d
Let’s Not Overstretch Neuroplasticity – NEO.LIFE
Maia Szalavitz - Medium 332d 2 tweets
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
Points - Points: The Blog of the Alcohol & Drugs History Society 333d 1 tweets
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. 333d
I’m Sick of Photo Essays on the Opioid Crisis Missing a Major Part of the Story: Recovery
Slate Magazine 341d 3 tweets
Yes, they’re trying to help, but they feel misleadingly hopeless.
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Maia Szalavitz Read great new Slate piece on addiction disaster porn & the harm it does right now! 340d
What the media gets wrong about opioids
Columbia Journalism Review 369d 11 tweets
<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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Maia Szalavitz In this piece for Columbia Journalism Review, I describe how the media has conveyed the misguided narrative details— and how we can do better 345d
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Maia Szalavitz 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 see also /1 274d