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Podcast: New Books In Public Health
Episode: Maia Szalavitz, "Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction" (Hachette, 2021)
Description: Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction (Hachette Go, 2021) tells a long-running, but largely unknown, story of how a few people and groups â propelled at first by the AIDS pandemic -- swam against one of the most powerful policy tides in America â our nationâs 50-year war on drugs. Maia Szalavitzâs book is a personal and political history of the idea of harm reduction, which is a philosophy, a set of health practices, and a call to action. Harm reduction is a powerful alternative to virtually all of the âconventional wisdomâ about drugs and drug...