Neuroscience Journalist, New York Times, Scientific American, etc. Author, Unbroken Brain. OUT NOW: Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction (2021)
Jan 26, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I want to respond to this directly. First, I didn't misrepresent what goes on in Portugal. I visited there & spoke with their drug policy lead, who is not happy with how Shellenberger represents him. 1/
2nd, Lisbon has safe injection centers, so the policy to manage public drug use is not primarily arrest.
Nov 18, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
finally someone (other than us ;-) notices that these books present a flawed narrative about addiction, suggesting it is created by supply, which drives ineffective approaches like PDMPs & ignores pain nybooks.com/articles/2018/… see also cjr.org/covering_the_h… /1
while it might have been possible to reduce medical supply without creating the market for heroin that we did create, to do so, we would have had to provide instant access to maintenance medications, not just cut ppl off /2
