#64: Undoing Drugs (Maia Szalavitz)

Addiction specialist and best-selling author Maia Szalavitz joins me to talk about her new book, Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction.Maia has been researching, writing about, and working within the harm reduction community for more than twenty years, and her latest book is just one of many required reads for anyone who is beginning to realize they have been lied to about drugs and those who use them. Maia and I discuss different frameworks of recovery, definitions of harm reduction, and ways of embracing our identities (as addicted people, Aspies, etc.) without letting them weigh us down.  We also talk about Nirvana & Kurt Cobain, drug regulation as a fix to the overdose crisis, ways of undoing stigma,  and we preview the best parts of her new book.Support the show