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51. Codependency Is a Toxic Myth in Addiction Recovery

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
Best sellers, Evidence-based medicine, General interest
Abstract

Byline: Maia Szalavitz With over seven million copies sold, Melody Beattie's 1986 best seller, 'Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself,' is considered a [...]

Published
2022

52. Why Forced Addiction Treatment Fails

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
Addiction, Methamphetamine, Evidence-based medicine, Substance abuse -- Care and treatment, General interest
Abstract

Byline: Maia Szalavitz Jason Norelli, a San Francisco native, spent several years homeless in and around the city's Tenderloin district, addicted to methamphetamine. In 2001, he was legally mandated to [...]

Published
2022

53. Forced Addiction Treatment Fails

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
Drug abuse -- Prevention -- Forecasts and trends, Substance abuse -- Care and treatment, Government regulation, Market trend/market analysis, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Jason Norelli, a San Francisco native, spent several years homeless in and around the city's Tenderloin district, addicted to methamphetamine. In 2001, he was legally mandated to attend rehab and [...]

Published
2022

54. The Other Victims of the Opioid Crisis

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- Powers and duties, Chronic pain -- Care and treatment, Opioids -- Dosage and administration -- Laws, regulations and rules, Drugs -- Prescribing, Government regulation, Market trend/market analysis, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Doctors didn't think Brent Slone would survive his gruesome 2011 car crash. His car flipped after he swerved to avoid a stalled vehicle. His spinal cord was compressed. He broke [...]

Published
2022

55. A Novel Drug Decriminalization Plan

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
Oregon -- Domestic policy, Government regulation, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Morgan Godvin arrived at the Multnomah County Inverness jail in Oregon in June 2013. She had volunteered to be locked up during a drug-court appearance for felony heroin possession. Like [...]

Published
2022

56. Opioids Feel Like Love. That's Why They're Deadly in Tough Times

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
Opioids, Social networks, General interest
Abstract

Byline: Maia Szalavitz I had told myself that I'd never try heroin because it sounded too perfect. It's like 'warm, buttery love,' a friend told me. When I did yield [...]

Published
2021

58. Harm Reduction Is a Gift From Drug Users

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
Harm reduction -- Influence -- Personal narratives -- Social aspects, Drug abuse -- Personal narratives, HIV infection -- Prevention, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

When I was using heroin in New York City in 1986, half of all the people in the city who injected drugs were H.I.V.-positive. When a friend taught me to [...]

Published
2021

60. HOW TO SURVIVE A DEATH CRISIS.

Author

SZALAVITZ, MAIA

Subjects
*SAFE injection sites (Community health services), *OPIOID abuse, *TREATMENT of drug addiction, *HIV prevention, *SOCIAL history
Abstract

The article discusses the impact of opioid addiction on the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Topics include harm reduction approaches to addressing drug addiction such as safe-injection facilities (SIFs), previous responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the outcomes of SIFs in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Published
2019

64. Is Ozempic an addiction breakthrough?

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
SEMAGLUTIDE, INFLUENZA, COVID-19, PANDEMICS, ELECTIONS
Abstract

Recent studies suggest that drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy, typically used for diabetes and obesity, may also help reduce cravings in individuals struggling with alcoholism and drug addiction. Research indicates that individuals with opioid use disorder who took GLP-1 receptor agonists had a lower overdose rate and reduced hospitalization risk compared to those not taking these medications. While these findings are not definitive, they hint at the potential for a significant advancement in addiction treatment. Further research is needed, along with efforts to make these drugs more affordable and accessible for those in need. [Extracted from the article]

Published
2024

68. 10 ways we get the odds wrong: our minds are flummoxed by modern threats. How to spot real risks-and know when you're just fooling yourself

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
Fear -- Psychological aspects -- Social aspects, Risk perception -- Psychological aspects -- Social aspects
Abstract

IS YOUR GYM LOCKER ROOM CRAWLING with drug-resistant bacteria? Is the guy with the bulging backpack a suicide bomber? And what about that innocent-looking arugula: Will pesticide residue cause cancer, [...]

Published
2008

69. Your Opioid First-Aid Kit

Author

Szalavitz, Maia, Kuzma, Cindy, and Messimer, Jennifer

Subjects
Opioid abuse -- Reports -- Care and treatment -- Statistics, First aid -- Methods, Overdose -- Care and treatment -- Statistics, Pain management -- Methods, Health
Abstract

DRUG OVERDOSES ARE THE NUMBER ONE KILLER OF AMERICANS UNDER AGE 50. NEARLY TWO OUT OF THREE VICTIMS ARE MEN. LEARN HOW TO SAVE THEM. BY MAIA SZALAVITZ, CINDY KUZMA, [...]

Published
2017

70. The trouble with troubled teen programs: how the 'boot camp' industry tortures and kills kids

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
Juvenile justice, Administration of -- Management -- Political aspects -- Social aspects -- Psychological aspects, Juvenile boot camps -- Political aspects -- Management -- Social aspects -- Psychological aspects, Company business management
Abstract

THE STATE OF FLORIDA tortured 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson to death for trespassing. The teen had been sentenced to probation in 2005 for taking a joy ride in a Jeep […]

Published
2007

71. When the Cure Is Worse Than the Disease

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- Powers and duties, Overdose -- Forecasts and trends -- Patient outcomes, Opioid abuse -- Forecasts and trends -- Prevention, Suicide -- Forecasts and trends -- Prevention, Volunteerism, Pain management, Skin, Autistic children, Autism, Topical analgesics, Market trend/market analysis, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Katie Tulley suffers from an incurable bladder disorder so painful that it feels ''like tearing skin off your arm and pouring acid on it, 24/7,'' she said. On scans, the [...]

Published
2019

72. In defense of happy pills: why talk to a shrink if Prozac or Zoloft will do the trick?

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
Drug abuse -- Care and treatment, Drug abuse -- Personal narratives, Substance abuse -- Care and treatment, Substance abuse -- Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis
Abstract

THE FIRST TIME I did heroin, it was a Listening to Prozac moment. Like the patients that psychiatrist Peter Kramer describes in his 1993 book, I felt the way I […]

Published
2005

73. Sweet solace: 10 mostly pleasant truths about pain: chronic pain makes life hell for almost 30 million Americans. cures are elusive, but in the meantime, emotions, expectations--and even sex--may help soothe the ache

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
Analgesics -- Usage, Chronic pain -- Psychological aspects, Chronic pain -- Physiological aspects, Chronic pain -- Research, Pain -- Care and treatment, Pain -- Methods
Abstract

In the short term, pain keeps you alive. It's all essential warning signal, a command that is impossible to ignore. When you yank your finger off a hot stove--or sit [...]

Published
2005

74. Dr. Feelscared: drug warriors put the fear of prosecution in physicians who dare to treat pain

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
United States. Drug Enforcement Administration -- Cases -- Powers and duties -- Ethical aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules, Drug dealing -- Cases -- Laws, regulations and rules, Pharmaceutical laws -- Interpretation and construction -- Ethical aspects -- Cases -- Laws, regulations and rules, Physicians -- Cases -- Ethical aspects -- Powers and duties -- Laws, regulations and rules, Drug traffic -- Cases -- Laws, regulations and rules, Analgesics -- Usage -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Ethical aspects -- Cases, Pain -- Care and treatment -- Cases -- Laws, regulations and rules, Company legal issue, Government regulation, Humanities, Philosophy and religion, Political science, OxyContin (Medication) -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Usage -- Ethical aspects -- Cases
Abstract

ON FEBRUARY 1, 2002, Cecil Knox was seeing patients in his Roanoke, Virginia, clinic when more than a dozen federal agents burst through the doors with guns drawn. Helmeted, shielded, [...]

Published
2004

75. The demon seed that wasn't: debunking the 'crack baby' myth

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
Prenatal drug exposure, News, opinion and commentary, Regional focus/area studies, Social sciences
Abstract

When four starving boys aged 19, 14, 10 and 9, were taken from their New Jersey adoptive parents last October, all were severely emaciated. The oldest was so stunted--he weighed [...]

Published
2004

79. Addiction Doesn't Always Last a Lifetime

Author

Szalavitz, Maia and Jones, Ryan Christopher

Subjects
Opioids, General interest
Abstract

Byline: MAIA SZALAVITZ and RYAN CHRISTOPHER JONES Filthy hands gripping bloody needles, pregnant women shooting up, angelic toddlers in car seats with their parents slumped upfront, overdosed -- media images [...]

Published
2018

80. Why it's not 'enabling' to make drug use safer

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
Health facilities -- Planning -- Services, Overdose -- Patient outcomes -- Prevention, Drug abuse -- Prevention, Company business planning, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Maia Szalavitz In the face of an unabating overdose crisis that has already killed more than a half-million people, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Seattle have announced plans to do [...]

Published
2018

81. Breaking addicts in order to fix them: how Synanon revolutionized drug treatment and poisoned the politics of prohibition

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
The Recovery Revolution: The Battle over Addiction Treatment in the United States (Nonfiction work) -- Clark, Claire D., Books -- Book reviews, Humanities, Philosophy and religion, Political science
Abstract

THOUGH NEARLY FORGOTTEN today, Synanon--the first organization to claim to have a drug-free cure for heroin addiction--had an enormous impact on American culture. At the peak of the drug war [...]

Published
2017

82. Chlapec, ktereho chovali jako pasa

Author

Perry, Bruce D., Szalavitz, Maia, Perry, Bruce D., and Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
Child psychiatry--Popular works, Psychic trauma in children--Case studies
Abstract

Dětský psychiatr Bruce Perry měl v terapii děti, které zažily nepředstavitelné hrůzy: přežily genocidu, byly svědky násilných činů, dospělí je zavírali do skříní či klecí, byly oběťmi násilí v rodině. Perry vypráví jejich příběhy a mluví o traumatech, která utrpěly, i o tom, jak se z nich dokázaly zotavit. V knize najdeme příběh dětí ze sekty Davidiánů nebo příběh satanské paniky, která zachvátila Spojené státy v 80. letech minulého století a která se řadí k moderním pověstem, do stejné skupiny fenoménů, kam patří například falešné vzpomínky na sexuální zneužívání. Bruce D. Perry je americký psychiatr, specializuje se na dětské duševní zdraví a neurovědu. Maia Szalavitz je americká reportérka, autorka specializující se na oblast vědy, politiky a léčby závislostí.

Published
2016

83. The Wrong Way to Treat Opioid Addiction

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
United Parcel Service Inc., Courier services, Buprenorphine, Drug approval, Drug abuse -- Care and treatment, Substance abuse -- Care and treatment, General interest
Abstract

Byline: MAIA SZALAVITZ Before Joe Thompson switched treatments for his opioid addiction, he was a devoted stay-at-home father, caring for his infant son after his wife returned to work. His [...]

Published
2018

84. Sick treatment: when drug counselors attack. (Intelligence the Big Idea)

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
Drug addicts -- Civil rights, Drug treatment centers -- Ethical aspects, Drug treatment centers -- Management, Drug abuse -- Care and treatment, Company business management, News, opinion and commentary, Regional focus/area studies, Social sciences
Abstract

GLORIA HOLMES DIDN'T NEED any more hassles. A working, 36-year-old mother of three, she had been in and out of drug treatment for years. Following a 2001 suicide attempt serious [...]

Published
2003

85. No more addictive personality: the role of temperament, metabolism and development make the inheritance of addiction a complex affair

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
Metabolism -- Genetic aspects, Epigenetic inheritance -- Identification and classification, Substance abuse -- Genetic aspects, Environmental issues, Science and technology, Zoology and wildlife conservation
Abstract

One drunkard begets another, wrote the Greek philosopher Plutarch nearly 2,000 years ago, demonstrating the age-old wisdom of the observation that alcoholism runs in families. But determining exactly what it [...]

Published
2015

89. Why we ignore thousands of killings in the Philippines: The victims were drug users

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
Presidents (Government) -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Ethical aspects, Dehumanization -- Political aspects, Drug abusers -- Death of, Holocaust victims -- Influence, Genocide -- Political aspects, Law enforcement -- Political aspects -- Finance, Company financing, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Maia Szalavitz Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte recently admitted what has been plain since he took office and the killings started: He's committing genocide. 'Hitler massacred 3 million Jews,' he [...]

Published
2016

90. The 4 Traits That Put Kids at Risk for Addiction

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
Drinking age, Addiction, Children -- Health aspects, Substance abuse -- Care and treatment, General interest
Abstract

Byline: MAIA SZALAVITZ Drug education is the only part of the middle school curriculum I remember -- perhaps because it backfired so spectacularly. Before reaching today's legal drinking age, I [...]

Published
2016

91. Screenings to Fight Addiction

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
Drug education -- Forecasts and trends, Temperament -- Influence, Drug abuse treatment -- Forecasts and trends, Drug abuse -- Prevention, Adolescent behavior -- Analysis, Market trend/market analysis, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Drug education is the only part of the middle school curriculum I remember -- perhaps because it backfired so spectacularly. Before reaching today's legal drinking age, I was shooting cocaine [...]

Published
2016

92. Can You Get Over an Addiction?

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
Learning disorders -- Psychological aspects, Drug abuse -- Psychological aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

I SHOT heroin and cocaine while attending Columbia in the 1980s, sometimes injecting many times a day and leaving scars that are still visible. I kept using, even after I [...]

Published
2016

93. The public scorns the addiction treatment Prince planned to try. They shouldn't

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
Substance abuse treatment -- Methods, Pop singers -- Drug use -- Care and treatment, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Maia Szalavitz Prince's greatest music hit the radio while I was going off the rails during my own opioid and cocaine addiction. The young man who gave me my [...]

Published
2016

94. Five myths about heroin

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Maia Szalavitz America's epidemic of heroin and prescription-pain-reliever addiction has become a major issue in the 2016 elections. It's worse than ever: Deaths from overdoses of opioids - the [...]

Published
2016

96. Fresh Air with Terry Gross, July 7, 2016: Interview with Maia Szalavitz; Review of novel Underground Airlines

Author

Szalavitz, Maia, Corrigan, Maureen, WHYY Public Media, Miller, Danny (Radio producer), Gross, Terry, Szalavitz, Maia, Corrigan, Maureen, WHYY Public Media, Miller, Danny (Radio producer), and Gross, Terry

Abstract

Since its national debut in 1987, Fresh Air with Terry Gross has been a highly acclaimed and much adored weekday magazine among public radio listeners. Each week, nearly 4.8 million people turn to Peabody Award-winning host Terry Gross for insightful conversations with the leading voices in contemporary arts and issues. The renowned program reaches a global audience, with over 620 public radio stations broadcasting Fresh Air, and 3 million podcast downloads each week. Fresh Air has broken the mold of 'talk show' by weaving together superior journalism and intimate storytelling from modern-day intellectuals, politicians and artists alike. Through probing questions and careful research, Gross's interviews are lauded for revealing a fresh perspective on cultural icons and trends. Her thorough conversations are often complemented by commentary from well-known contributors. Fresh Air is produced at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and broadcast nationally by NPR., (1.) Journalist MAIA SZALAVITZ ("MY-ah Sal-LA-vitz") has been covering addiction issues for thirty years. She also had a heroin and cocaine addiction in her teens, but has long since been clean. In her new book Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction, she writes about new research that considers addiction a developmental and learning disorder. She also writes that tough love, interventions, hitting bottom, and 12-step programs may not be the right approach to treating addiction. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW).(2.) Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews the new suspense novel Underground Airlines, by Ben H. Winters that imagines what life would be like now if Lincoln was assassinated before he took office, and some states were still allowed to maintain slavery.

Published
2016

99. The War on Methadone

Author

Szalavitz, Maia

Subjects
Methadone -- Usage -- Patient outcomes, Drug abuse -- Care and treatment -- Patient outcomes, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

WHEN an old offense caught up with 28-year-old Robert Lepolszki last year, he had a full-time job and had kicked heroin. But Frank Gulotta Jr., the Nassau County judge assigned [...]

Published
2015

100. Why Jesus Is Not a Regulator

Author

SZALAVITZ, MAIA

Subjects
Church and state -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Religious aspects, Charities -- Finance -- Religious aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules, Economic policy -- Religious aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules, Business, general, Government regulation, Company financing, Finance, Economic policy, Religious aspects, Laws, regulations and rules
Abstract

One of the primary goals of President George W. Bush's new White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives is 'to eliminate unnecessary legislative, regulatory, and other bureaucratic barriers that [...]

Published
2001

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