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Maia Szalavitz

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Maia Szalavitz is a science reporter who specialises in covering addiction treatment and related policy issues. Her latest book is Undoing Drugs: How Harm Reduction is Changing the Future of Drugs and Addiction, which is the first history of the movement aimed at focusing drug policy on minimising harms, not highs. Her previous New York Times bestseller Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction wove together neuroscience and social science with her personal experience of heroin addiction. It won the 2018 media award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.