# Undoing Drugs

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/undoing-drugs>

**By** Maia Szalavitz, Trevor Burrus, Aaron Ross Powell

**Published:** October 15, 2021

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Maia Szalavitz joins the podcast to talk about how harm reduction offers a new way of thinking—one that provides startling insights into behavioral and cultural issues that go far beyond drugs.

## Summary:

Maia Szalavitz writes that drug overdoses now kill more Americans annually than guns, cars, or breast cancer. But the United States has tried to solve this national crisis with policies that only made matters worse.

## Further Reading:

[Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction](https://www.amazon.com/Undoing-Drugs-Untold-Reduction-Addiction-ebook/dp/B08HLQW66F), written by Maia Szalavitz

[Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction](https://www.amazon.com/Unbroken-Brain-Revolutionary-Understanding-Addiction-ebook/dp/B014PF3P84/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwqp-LBhDQARIsAO0a6aJ1Jk-Xta8snUyRqvu06f6x98J_KJ5yIMMt7CMbKbbZocbaJSia5BwaApSpEALw_wcB&hvadid=241608599225&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9008162&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=17500306142909153381&hvtargid=kwd-206468273572&hydadcr=15493_10339808&keywords=unbroken+brain&qid=1634230581&sr=8-1), written by Maia Szalavitz