In order for people to recover, we can't just say 'love is all we need.' — Maia Szalavitz Love Copy Share Image
We have a system that was devised by racists to create racist ends. — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
The thing about our drug laws is that they're not based on science. — Maia Szalavitz Drug Copy Share Image
Incarceration is as useful for addiction as it is for diabetes - i.e., not useful and potentially harmful, particularly for kids. — Maia Szalavitz Addiction Copy Share Image
Science could never get you to make alcohol and tobacco legal and marijuana illegal. Only racism can do that. — Maia Szalavitz Alcohol Copy Share Image
Marijuana is not not harmful, but is the least harmful psychoactive substance that we have, with the possible exception of caffeine. — Maia Szalavitz Caffeine Copy Share Image
We should not be putting kids in cages and hoping that is going to fix their psychological problems of any type. — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
I think our drug laws need to be made scientifically, as best as possible, recognizing that values will always be part of… — Maia Szalavitz Drug Copy Share Image
I also had my own addiction to cocaine and heroin in my 20s. I knew that it was driven not by the… — Maia Szalavitz Addiction Copy Share Image
If you're worried about a kid and drug use, the safest, best thing to do is individual counseling or family therapy, none… — Maia Szalavitz Best things Copy Share Image
In a criminal justice setting, it's very hard to create a therapeutic environment where people do feel safe, but the real important… — Maia Szalavitz Criminal justice Copy Share Image
The best outcomes that are seen for therapy intervention and for other psychological interventions is where the therapist really connects and the… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
Do we really want to base our 21st-century policy on what the colonialist preferred at a certain time in history, not at… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
Love is great and it does help a lot of people, but a lot of people do have things like depression or… — Maia Szalavitz Bipolar Copy Share Image
There's traditionally been two different ways of seeing addiction. Either it's a sin and you're a horrible bad person and you are… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
The thing we want for all our kids is that they be connected with a learning community and that they have strong… — Maia Szalavitz Addiction Copy Share Image
Because of the war on drugs, pain patients are treated with skepticism and pain doctors live in fear of being prosecuted for… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
Addiction is when you fall in love with a drug instead of a child or a lover and the learning that takes… — Maia Szalavitz Ability Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a single child who's ever benefitted from being arrested for marijuana or for underage drinking; this does not… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
I don't have kids, but I've often noticed when people first become parents they seem to completely forget their own adolescence and… — Maia Szalavitz Adolescence Copy Share Image
There is a safe, nontoxic drug called naloxone that can instantly reverse opioid overdose and prevent most of these deaths. But the… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
Because addiction is a developmental problem, the developmental stage is important, things like employment are important, things like having a sense of… — Maia Szalavitz Addiction Copy Share Image
Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is… — Maia Szalavitz Addiction Copy Share Image
I know that sounds really extreme, but if you just look at the history, you will find Harry Anslinger [first U.S. commissioner… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
When President Nixon declared war on drugs on June 17, 1971, about 110 people per 100,000 in the population were incarcerated. Today,… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
Drug warriors' staunch opposition to needle exchanges to prevent the spread of HIV in addicts delayed the programs' widespread introduction in most… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
A lot of addiction actually ends by age 30 - something like 50 percent of all addictions with the exception of tobacco… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
![“I know that sounds really extreme, but if you just look at the history, you will find Harry Anslinger [first U.S. commissioner of the Bureau of Narcotics] going on about satanic swing and how reefer will make black people think they're as good as white people - which to him, obviously, was a very…” quote by Maia Szalavitz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b14/maia-szalavitz-21394_bases_i-know-that-sounds-really-extreme-but-if_2470423.jpg)
