Maia Szalavitz

Maia Szalavitz is a journalist who covers health, science and public policy, and is a Senior Fellow at the non-profit, non-partisan Statistical Assessment Service (STATS). www.stats.org
She is co-author of Recovery Options: The Complete Guide and author of a HuffingtonPost blog.
Articles by this Author
Beyond 12 Steps
- By Maia Szalavitz
- Published 05/19/2008
- What Are Your Recovery Options , AA and other 12 Step Groups
-
Rating:




Although addiction and alcoholism treatment research has advanced
tremendously since Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in 1935, many
people do not know that equally effective alternatives to 12-step
programs exist—nor do they know how to find them. In popular culture,
AA is often portrayed as the only way.
The Truth About Painkillers
- By Maia Szalavitz
- Published 04/4/2008
- Drug News
- Unrated
More Misinformation on Ledger Death, Prescription Drug Misuse
- By Maia Szalavitz
- Published 03/28/2008
- Celebrity News
- Unrated
Studies of people who abuse prescription pain medications find that the
vast majority have prior histories of drug abuse and that pain patients
do not turn into criminal addicts simply because they receive certain
medications.
How to Save an Overdose Victim
- By Maia Szalavitz
- Published 02/13/2008
- What Options Do You Have To Help
- Unrated
How Not to Die Like Heath Ledger, Part II
- By Maia Szalavitz
- Published 02/7/2008
- Drugs
- Unrated
The toxicology results are in on Heath Ledger's death -- and sadly, they reveal the most common scenario in overdose fatalities. At least six different drugs were found in his system, including oxycodone and benzodiazepines. If you want to avoid dying, mixing depressants is a very bad idea.
Shame About Addiction Should Not Obscure Truth About How Drugs Kill
- By Maia Szalavitz
- Published 02/7/2008
- Key ideas and recovery tools
- Unrated
What We Can Learn from Heath Ledger's Death: Don't Mix Downs!!!
- By Maia Szalavitz
- Published 02/6/2008
- Drugs
- Unrated
Still hungover? Don't read last week's New York Times
- By Maia Szalavitz
- Published 01/8/2008
- Alcohol News
- Unrated
Will alcohol binges on New Year’s really destroy your ability to think flexibly? That’s what this peculiar op-ed in last week’s New York Times suggests.
Marijuana is an antidepressant at low doses
- By Maia Szalavitz
- Published 10/26/2007
- Drug News
- Unrated
Research just keeps knocking drug war myths down. This week, two different studies took on some of the warriors' sacred cows-- the idea that parents whose kids are using drugs are “in denial” about it and the notion that marijuana use always has negative effects on mental health.
In Defense of Happy Pills
- By Maia Szalavitz
- Published 10/4/2007
- Detoxification or Medications
- Unrated




