Source: Big Think
Maia Szalavitz is widely viewed as one of the premier American journalists covering addiction and drugs. A neuroscience writer for TIME.com and a former cocaine and heroin addict, she understands the science and its personal dimensions in a way that few others can. is the first book-length exposé of the “tough love” business that dominates addiction treatment.
Her newest book is Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction.- Drug companies make huge profits by flooding the market with overly powerful — and highly addictive — drugs.
- Some high profile deaths over the last several years have brought this problem to the headlines. It’s everyone, not just middle America, who is getting hooked.
- Why do we let Big Pharma rule over? Journalist and author Maia Szalavitz investigates.
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