Maia Szalavitz
Journalist and author on addiction
Maia Szalavitz is an American journalist and author who writes about addiction, neuroscience and public policy. She co-wrote The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog with psychiatrist Bruce D. Perry.
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American Born 1965
About Maia Szalavitz
Maia Szalavitz is an American reporter and author whose work focuses on science, public policy and addiction treatment. She has won awards from the American Psychological Association, the Drug Policy Alliance and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. She co-wrote the bestselling The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog with child psychiatrist Bruce D. Perry. The two also wrote Born for Love together. Her book Help at Any Cost looks at abuse in "tough love" programs, and she has also written Unbroken Brain, which draws on her own recovery from heroin and cocaine addiction. Her journalism has appeared in TIME.com, where she wrote daily from 2010 to 2013, and in publications such as the New York Times, Scientific American Mind and Nature.