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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Carlyn Zwarenstein shatters our misconceptions about opioids and refuses the violence of prohibition
Description: Carlyn Zwarenstein (https://carlynzwarenstein.com/) is a writer and journalist based in Toronto. Her second book On Opium was just published by Goose Lane Editions (https://gooselane.com/products/on-opium). I speak with her about her push within that work to question narratives around whose lives are “enabled” and “destroyed” by opioids, and about how, for her, drug use became a tool for writing, and one that forced her to “look outside” herself and engage with the “overlapping issues” that constitute the overdose crisis.
She argues that, at a certain point, it becomes necessary to stop worrying about making a convincing case...