Maia SzalavitzVerified account

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Neuroscience Journalist. Contributing Opinion Writer, New York Times. OUT NOW: Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction (2021)

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    Great, informative conversation about , addiction and between and

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    22 hours ago

    If you're wondering why you're so exhausted, demotivated and teary it's because we are now two years into a pandemic, things were hard before it started and lots of things are frightening and dangerous currently. Suggestions for you to 'be more resilient' are just meaningless now

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    Mar 14

    Opioid hysteria is just another side effect of the failed war on drugs, it hurts more people than it helps. Every night of my life is torture and the one drug that would help is the one drug I'll never get, so I just suffer and can't function like a normal person.

    my latest and first as contributing opinion writer!
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    Mar 14

    Still left out of virtually all reporting fr : what gratefully details in op-ed: irreparable harm to of one-side of . Hear us. See us. Treat us.

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    Mar 13

    Strong headline work from an anonymous deskman at the , 1939. (Using today's measure: Would you click? Yes, you would.)

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    Mar 13

    Gangsters meeting about gang stuff

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    Mar 14

    Got one. How do I turn it on? Also started doing this weird humming noise, is that a defect?

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  8. Mar 14

    important story, excellent historic picture of a kitteh wearing a mask. (dunnno why the dog isn't)

    A new flu variant in 1920 caused a fourth wave that killed more people in some cities than earlier waves. Many places had restrictions during 2nd and 3rd waves, but virtually none did during the 4th. Moving on too soon was a mistake.
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  9. Mar 14

    Groups openly grooming young children thrive on FB meanwhile, politicians try to panic parents about school curricula

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    Mar 7

    Excellent article. I'm convinced that opiods saved my wife's life when she had nerve pain as a result of scleroderma a decade ago. She regularly says that the only time she was ever suicidal was before she got that pain under control. When the pai ended, she stopped taking...

    my latest and first as contributing opinion writer!
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    Mar 12

    WE SHOULDN’T HAVE TO DO THIS

    Ah yes, time for the biannual gaslighting of the cat, in which I slowly shift meals by 15 minutes at a time for two weeks in a ritual that is both mystifying and infuriating for him.
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    Mar 13

    Important perspective on opioid crisis by ⁦⁩. Pleased we focused on chronic pain patient journey map ⁦⁩ opioid collaborative ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩

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  13. Mar 13

    i am in awe of the patients who do this work. as a journalist trying to cover this, it is infuriating to see them ignored or worse, attacked as shills or dupes because they interfere with a story that others want to sell & don't want complicated.

    The weight of what we do is so heavy. Hearing from CPP’s every day, many of whom say it’s suicide or the street, and knowing I can’t help them find a dr is disheartening. Then seeing “experts” say we all love the be professional patients and do so to live off the system is 💔
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    Mar 11
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    We need balanced policy and people with Lived Experience to be included on ALL Policy Development & Advisory Committees. I personally found it extremely disturbing that the Advisory Committee Solicitation was only on PN for 10 days & Excludes ALL Patient Voices.

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  15. Mar 12

    p.s. fentanyl is dangerous enough without extra scare stories. use common sense when reporting. talk to toxicologists, not police. ask yourself: how would this actually occur & why do all such secondary exposure stories get debunked?

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    Mar 12
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    As someone trained in CPR, I thank you cuz I never heard that u could “catch” fentanyl from a dying person’s lips. That’s insane and would stop civilian responders without a mouth-to-mouth barrier.

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    Mar 12

    New books on the history of addiction, both important and beautifully written, by and

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  18. Mar 12

    total institutions for vulnerable people without oversight will always generate abuse; the idea that being cruel to kids helps them magnifies it...

    This week, we published a new investigation with and about a new juvenile prison that was opened without any oversight and subjected kids to harsh, inhumane conditions.
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  19. Mar 12

    hint: law enforcement sources are not medical experts. & spreading this myth will cost lives, even as it may spare the careers of the ppl who claim they didn't themselves OD

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  20. Mar 12

    nope, you can't OD by giving CPR to someone who OD'd on fentanyl. & yet everyone reports this as if it were a thing cc

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