Maia Szalavitz: Shooting from the hip on addiction and politics

Published February 4, 2014

Maia Szalavitz: Shooting from the hip on addiction and politics — A conversation with Maia Szalavitz, an author, blogger and magazine writer whose contrarian debunkings of addiction treatment programs have raised hackles. N…

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