Maia Szalavitz

Maia Szalavitz (born March 29, 1965) is an American reporter and author who has focused on science, public policy and addiction treatment.

Raised in upstate New York, Szalavitz graduated from Monroe-Woodbury High School in 1983 and attended Columbia University. She graduated cum laude from Brooklyn College.[1]

Career

Best known as the author of Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids, a 2006 exposé documenting abuse in the insufficiently regulated, troubled teen treatment industry, she has written many other books including, Born for Love: Why Empathy is Essential — and Endangered (Morrow, 2010) and The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog (Basic, 2006), both coauthored with Dr. Bruce D. Perry and co-authored Recovery Options: The Complete Guide, with Dr. Joseph Volpicelli. She has been awarded the American Psychological Association's Division 50 Award for Contributions to the Addictions, the Media Award from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and the Drug Policy Alliance's 2005 Edward M. Brecher Award for Achievement.

Paul Raeburn at Knight Science Journalism at MIT calls her "...the best writer I know of on addiction and related issues.[2]

She blogs for the Huffington Post. She has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsday, New York Magazine, New Scientist, Newsweek, Elle, Salon, Redbook and other major publications. She has also worked in television - first as Associate Producer and then Segment Producer for the PBS Charlie Rose show, then on several documentaries including a Barbara Walters' AIDS special for ABC, and as Series Researcher and Associate Producer for the PBS documentary series, "Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home."

Szalavitz is an investigative reporter for Time Magazine and since 2004 has been a senior fellow at George Mason University's media watchdog group STATS.org

References

  1. ↑ 'Maia Szalavitz', Women's Media Center. Retrieved 8 January 2014
  2. ↑ 'Time's Maia Szalavitz on radical change at a leading addiction treatment center', KSJ-MIT, Paul Raeburn, 6 November 2012. Retrieved 8 January 2014.

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