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This database features alternative experts who are available to the press. Their authority derives from either lived experience or professional expertise or both. The current categories are Drugs, Care, Labor and Economics, with more to come. For additional information please visit the About page.

Maia Szalavitz
Co-founder, Changing the Narrative
Szalavitz is the author, most recently, of Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction, which is the first history of the movement to focus drug policy on minimizing harms, not highs. She's also a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times and has written or co-written eight other books. Changing the Narrative is a network of reporters, researchers, academics and advocates concerned about the way media represents drug use and addiction.
FOCUS: Drugs
LANGUAGE: English
ORGANIZATION:
Changing the Narrative