Panel 2: Addressing Myths, Misinformation, and Real Harms, Drug Policy Alliance, panel discussion moderated by Brian Pacheco, DPA Voices, 4/10/2025
The Drug War Gets Even Dumber With Maia Szalavitz and Jessica Sele, Episode 271, interview with Francesca Fiorentini, The Bitchuation Room Podcast, 3/12/2025
The Future of Cannabis Research and Regulations, interview with Jonathan Chang and Meghna Chakrabarti, On Point, WBUR, 12/20/2024
Episode 171. A New Way of Understanding Addiction with Maia Szalavitz, interview with Patrick Fox, The Alcohol Rethink Podcast, 10/25/2024
For People with Opioid Addiction, Medicaid Overhaul Comes with Risks, interview with Mary Louise Kelly and Stephanie Colombini, Shots: Health News From NPR, 9/16/2024
Episode 185: Maia Szalavitz, interview with Molly Painschab, Food Junkies Podcast, 7/12/2024
Drugs: What America Gets Wrong about Addiction and Policy, Big Think, 6/24/2024
Q&A: How Harm Reduction Can Help Mitigate the Opioid Crisis , interview with Drew Hawkins, Gulf States Newsroom, WWNO, 4/19/2024
Rethinking Drug Addiction, interview with Marty Moss-Coane, The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane, WHYY, 2/16/2024
Maia Szalavitz, Undoing Drugs, interview with Nzinga Harrison, Un-Addiction with Nzinga Harrison, MD, Episode 4, 1/23/2024
Rethinking Drug Addiction and Treatment, interview with Marty Moss-Coane, The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane, WHYY, 11/17/2023
The Liverpool Exchange, interview with Phoebe Judge, Criminal Podcast, Episode 178, 11/10/2023
Decriminalizing Substance Use Works in Portugal — and can in Oregon, says Neuroscience and Health Journalist, interview with Dave Miller, Think Out Loud, OBP, 10/2/2023
Demon Drugs and Moral Panics with Maia Szalavitz, interview with Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas, What Could Go Right? Podcast, Season 4: Episode 13, 5/10/2023
Maia Szalavitz: An Inspiring Perspective on Addiction, interview with Serge Prengel, Active Pause Podcast, 5/1/2023
Fentanyl and Feinstein with Jenny Zirgrino & Maia Szalavitz, Episode 178, interview with Francesca Fiorentini, The Bitchuation Room Podcast, 4/18/2023
Religion and Rehab. What’s God got to do with it?, interview with Steve Martorano, The Behavioral Corner, 3/26/2023
Cutting People Off From Opioids May Not Be the Solution, interview with Krys Boyd, KERA Think, 1/24/2023
Andrew Tatarsky and Maia Szalavitz: How ‘Harm Reduction’ Is Transforming Drug Policy, interview with Nick Gillespie, Reason Podcast, 01/11/2023
Why Harm Reduction is the Way Forward with Maia Szalavitz, interview with Sherry Price, Drink Less Lifestyle, 12/7/2022
Dopey 384: The Incredible Maia Szalavitz; From Dealing Cocaine to Jerry Garcia and JFK Jr. to being a NY Times writer and the world’s foremost expert on Harm Reduction, interview, Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction, 11/12/2022
How Harm Reduction Disrupts Painful Cycles of Addiction, interview with Alissa Quart, To The Best of Our Knowledge, 11/12/2022
Debunking Myths About Meth, interview with Doug McVay, Century Of Lies, 9/14/2022
Undoing Drugs pt 2, interview with Doug McVay, Century Of Lies, 9/07/2022
Undoing Drugs pt 1, interview with Doug McVay, Century Of Lies, 8/31/2022
Maia Szalavitz – Undoing Drugs & Unbroken Brain, interview with Nathan McLean & Corey Williams, Recovery Machine, 7/6/2022
Femme Friday: How The Drug War Ends | Legalized Psychedelics Are Already Here, interview with Nomiki Konst, The Nomiki Show, 5/30/2022
Harm Reduction Strategies With Opiate Abusers, interview with Abbey Strauss, The Experts Speak, 4/22/2022
Show 1296: Why the War on Drugs Failed and How Harm Reduction Can Help, interview with Terry Graedon, The People’s Pharmacy, 4/4/2022
Stiicky Eddie #49: Talking Harm Reduction and “Undoing Drugs” with Maia Szalavitz, interview with Chelsea Pegues, The Stiicky Eddie Podcast, 3/29/2022
Maia Szalavitz On Drugs And Harm Reduction, interview with Andrew Sullivan, The Weekly Dish, 3/11/2022
Q&A: “The Media Loves Itself Some Drug War”, interview with Zachary Siegel, Substance, 3/4/2022
POD35. Maia Szalavitz- Undoing Drugs, interview with Aaron Akulis, The Peace On Drugs Podcast, 3/1/2022
Countering Drug Addiction & Policy Misinformation w/ Maia Szalavitz, interview with J.G. Michael, Parallax Views, WallStreetWindow, 2/7/2022
Why Addiction Theories May Be Wrong, interview with JS Rafaeli, News on Drugs, Vice, 2/6/2022
Different w/Ari Kotler – Vol. 2 – Maia Szalavitz, interview with Ari Kotler, Sleepy Hollow Radio , 1/20/2022
Maia Szalavitz – Expanding The Definition of Recovery, interview with Donald McDonald, No Thanks But Yes, 12/28/2021
First, Do No Harm: An Argument for a Radical New Paradigm for Treating Addiction, interview with Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12/28/2021
Opioids Feel Like Love. That’s Why They’re Deadly, The Morning Show with Nikki Medoro, 12/21/2021
Opioids can ‘feel like love.’ Here’s how that helps our understanding of addiction, On Point, WBUR, 12/16/2021
Maia Szalavitz on the Pioneers of Harm Reduction, interview with Ethan Nadelmann, PSYCHOACTIVE, 12/2/2021
Harm Reduction Therapy with Maia Szalavitz, interview with Josh King, The Beyond Addiction Show, 11/17/2021
Maia Szalavitz – A Compassionate Approach to Addiction, interview with Matthew Goodman, The Middle Way, 11/16/2021
Reducing Harm to People and Communities, interview with Alexander Heffner, The Open Mind, CUNY TV, 11/14/21
Against The Pain: The Opioid Crisis And Medication Access, WAMU NPR, 11/11/21
Recovery in the Middle Ages, interview with Mike and Nat, RMA-Episode 61, 11/5/21
A Conversation with Writer and Activist, Maia Szalavitz, Boulder, Alano Club of Portland, Outside In, and RecoveryLink, 10/28/21
Opioid crisis in South Florida, interview with Caitie Switalski Munoz, WLRN, 10/19/21
Undoing Drugs (with Maia Szalavitz), interview with Trevor Burrus and Aaron Ross Powell, Free Thoughts, 10/15/21
Undoing Drugs, Talk Recovery Radio, 10/14/21
Vermont Conversation: Confronting the Addiction Epidemic behind the Covid Pandemic, interview with David Goodman, VTDigger, 10/7/21
How to Keep Drug Users Alive LongEnough toRecover, interview with Krys Boyd, KERA Think, 10/4/21
Undoing Drugs: A Conversation with Maia Szalavitz, interview with Lawson Koeppel, Virginia Festival of the Book, 9/30/21
Maia Szalavitz & Sarah Schulman, interview with Mathew Rodriguez, Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, 9/21/21
DPA Podcast Episode 47: Maia Szalavitz Considers Harm Reduction’s Past and Future, interview with Sheila Vakharia, Drug Policy Alliance, 9/20/21
Maia Szalavitz Discusses Her New Page-Turner About the History of Harm Reduction, interview with Tim Murphy, The Body, 9/20/21
The Case for Harm Reduction with Maia Szalavitz, interview with Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed, 9/14/21
Undoing Drugs, Part One, 8/4/11, Undoing Drugs, Part Two, 8/11/21, Century of Lies, interview with Doug McVay.
08/02/21 Maia Szalavitz, interview with Doug McVay, Drug Truth Network, 8/2/21
112 Maia Szalavitz, interview with Joshua B. Hoe, Decarceration Nation, 8/2/21
Maia Szalavitz + Lisa Moore + Johann Hari, Strand Book Store, 7/26/21
Maia Szalavitz — Addiction and Harm Reduction, The Social Exchange, 6/22/21
Edward Kremers Seminar, interview with Caroline Acker, American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, 6/17/21
Changing the Narrative on Drug Addiction, Shawnee State Distinguished Lecture Series, public address, 3/12/21
DEBUNKED Episode 14: Myth ‘Once a Junkie, Always A Junkie‘, interview, 2/11/21
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