Maia SzalavitzVerified account

@maiasz

Neuroscience Journalist, , , etc. Author, Unbroken Brain. Next: Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction (2021)

New York
maiasz.com
Joined April 2008
147 Photos and videos Photos and videos

Tweets

You blocked @maiasz

Are you sure you want to view these Tweets? Viewing Tweets won't unblock @maiasz

  1. Retweeted
    8 hours ago

    I was a drug user and dealer for decades and never ONCE did I have an adverse reaction from having Fentanyl powder on my hands, face....ect. Nor know of someone "overdosing" just by being in the same vicinity as the drug. As a Harm Reduction front liner I've never seen it either.

    Please join me, , and a rapidly growing list of other drug experts in signing this letter calling for retraction of any news reports that perpetuate the passive fentanyl exposure myth.
    5 replies 14 retweets 45 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  2. Retweeted
    9 hours ago

    After no infections for 18 months, 7 members of my family have been infected in the last two weeks. Four are very young kids whose sibling got it from daycare. Three are adults, all vaccinated. Kids are fine. Two of the adults have serious symptoms. Delta is real.

    107 replies 734 retweets 2,938 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  3. Retweeted
    7 hours ago

    💯 Thank you so much, .

    I think it’s incredibly hard for people who work in politics to truly accept this advice, but has it right.
    2 retweets 8 likes
    Undo
  4. Retweeted
    8 hours ago

    Just by looking at this photo I can tell he’s not in pulmonary distress. I have witnessed or participated in more than a dozen reversals-his lips would be dark blue from oxygen loss. Also they’re doing it wrong he should be on his side in case he vomits

    These news stories pushing back against the police narrative happened because literally hundreds of people on this website demanded evidence other than a dramatic video clip, evidence that has yet to be produced by the San Diego Sheriff’s office.
    3 replies 11 retweets 24 likes
    Undo
  5. Retweeted
    8 hours ago

    Just got audible version of Undoing Drugs and pretty stoked about this. Thank you

    7 retweets 12 likes
    Undo
  6. Retweeted
    10 hours ago

    “Why are you reading this book by on the history of harm reduction and why aren’t you playing with me?” - Poppy, who cannot endorse the book without more pets

    4 retweets 60 likes
    Undo
  7. Retweeted
    12 hours ago
    Replying to

    I bet. I’m glad the book is getting the attention it deserves. I’ll get it in the hands of 80 University of Georgia students starting in a couple of weeks.

    1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes
    Undo
  8. Retweeted
    19 hours ago

    Atty. Ron Chapman is suing !! Ron has been a fierce advocate for the pain community and prescribers.

    1 reply 9 retweets 24 likes
    Undo
  9. Retweeted
    12 hours ago

    Source: Credit: guciapek

    7 retweets 29 likes
    Undo
  10. Retweeted
    18 hours ago

    All growth requires loss. A loss of your old values, your own behaviors, your old loves, your old identity. Therefore, growth sometimes has a component of grief to it.

    29 replies 879 retweets 3,688 likes
    Undo
  11. Retweeted
    14 hours ago

    A seventeenth-century Dutch man smoking with his cat. 🌿🐈

    2 replies 13 retweets 46 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  12. Retweeted
    16 hours ago

    SWS (Ep. 44) | : A History Of Harm Reduction With LINK IS HERE:

    2 retweets 5 likes
    Undo
  13. Retweeted
    16 hours ago

    Poorer People Are Six Times More Likely to Die From Drugs Than Rich People Not really breaking news, but a good reminder that there's way more complexity to treating than just the drugs.

    3 replies 12 retweets 21 likes
    Undo
  14. Retweeted
    Aug 7

    On this week's edition of Century of Lies, it's the second half of my conversation with Maia Szalavitz . We talk about harm reduction, recovery, and her brilliant new book Undoing Drugs

    5 retweets 8 likes
    Undo
  15. Retweeted
    Aug 7

    Proud owner of 's latest book , The Untold Story of and The Future of Addiction. It's a nice addition to my collection. Just hoping I can read before the next SUD coordinating committee meeting 😬

    1 reply 3 retweets 28 likes
    Undo
  16. Retweeted
    Aug 7

    “We've gone from a climate where every single politician was racing to lock people up to a situation where people at least say we can't arrest our way out of this. But that took like 30-40 years” - Episode 112

    3 retweets 9 likes
    Undo
  17. Retweeted
    Aug 7
    Replying to

    I have PTSD. B/c I’m a pain pt I’m allowed nothing 4 it or my severe anxiety. If I’m given a benzo I’m force tapered off my pain meds. My friends & I must choose which we want treated. I’m going 2 have 2 wrk when I lose my caregiver. I can’t afford 2 not have pain meds but how…

    2 replies 1 retweet 8 likes
    Undo
  18. Retweeted
    Aug 7
    Replying to

    Thank you, Maia. It has been devastating for intractable pain patients. We just lost another pain patient who was so desperate for relief that she turned to the black market. She was found dead. Overdose

    2 retweets 11 likes
    Undo
  19. Retweeted
    Aug 7
    Replying to and

    1/ People in pain with serious conditions and disabilities (including cancer, sickle cell, MS, etc.) are being denied medication, forcibly and abruptly tapered (actually ⬆️OD risk) and abandoned in care.

    2 replies 8 retweets 16 likes
    Undo
  20. Aug 7

    it's also kinda racist because the reason certain drugs are legal while others are illegal is not relative risk, but because white ppl OK'd some drugs and not others.

    1 reply 5 retweets 70 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo

@maiasz hasn't Tweeted yet.

Loading seems to be taking a while.

Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.

    You may also like

    ·