An Evening With Addiction Expert Maia Szalavitz Tuesday, October 21. In person!

[David Levine]

Science Writers in New York Presents

An Evening With Addiction Expert Maia Szalavitz

Tuesday, October 21, 6:30 to 8 P.M. EDT

On Tuesday, October 21, Science Writers in New York invites you to join us for a conversation with journalist and author Maia Szalavitz, who writes about drugs, addiction and public policy. 

Maia will discuss with SWINY chair David Levine (@dlloydlevine) her books and articles and such topics as addiction as a learning disorder and whether addiction is love gone awry.

About Maia Szalavitz

Maia is a nationally known expert on addiction who is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times and for numerous other publications including TIME, Wired, Elle, The Nation and Scientific American. Her most recent book, Undoing Drugs:  The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction, was the first history of the movement aimed at focusing drug policy on minimizing harms, not highs. 

Maia is also the author of the 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. Her 2006 book, Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids, was the first to expose the damage caused by “tough love” youth treatment and helped spur Congressional hearings.

Praise for Maia

“Maia Szalavitz is one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere. Everything she writes should be read carefully – I guarantee you’ll have a lot to think about, and you’ll know far more than at the start.” Johann Hari, New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream

“Maia Szalavitz is one of our most incisive thinkers about neuroscience in general and addiction in particular and her writing is astonishingly clear and compelling. In the timely, important, and insightful Unbroken Brain, Szalavitz seamlessly interweaves her moving personal story with her investigation into what addiction is (and isn’t) and how we can most effectively prevent and treat it.” David Sheff, New York Times bestselling author of Clean and Beautiful Boy

“Through the lens of her own gripping story of addiction – supported with empirical evidence – Szalavitz persuasively shows that addiction is a disorder of learning, not one characterized by progressive brain dysfunction.” Carl Hart, Ph.D., author of the Pen/Faulkner award-winning High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.

When:
Tuesday, October 21
6:30 to 8 P.M. EDT
Refreshments will be provided

Where:
The home of Chip and Susan Fisher
1060 5th Avenue on the northeast corner at 87th Street

Admission is complementary. Please show your support for SWINY by joining or renewing now. You can join here.

Space is limited. Please RSVP by Tuesday, October 14.

Note: By attending this event you are certifying that you are not infected with, or have tested positive for, COVID-19.