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On Reducing Harm & Savings Lives (Maia Szalavitz): ADDICTION

Listen now (59 mins) | “I think it's really important for, you know, people to realize that you can totally be an absolutely excellent parent of a traumatized child and the trauma had nothing..."

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Elise Loehnen
Dec 19, 2023
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Maia Szalavitz is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times and author of two fantastic books about addiction. Her New York Times bestseller, Unbroken Brain, tells the story of her own heroin and cocaine addiction as a student at Columbia University in the ‘80s—…

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