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Maia Szalavitz was born on 29 March, 1965 in United States, is an American reporter and author (born 1965). Discover Maia Szalavitz's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old?
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Writer, author |
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58 years old |
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Aries |
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29 March 1965 |
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29 March |
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United States
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Maia Szalavitz Height, Weight & Measurements
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Dating & Relationship status
She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Maia Szalavitz Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Maia Szalavitz worth at the age of 58 years old? Maia Szalavitz’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. She is from United States. We have estimated Maia Szalavitz's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Maia Pearl Szalavitz (born March 29, 1965) is an American reporter and author who focuses on science, public policy and addiction treatment.
Maia Szalavitz was born March 29, 1965.
She was raised in upstate New York.
She graduated from Monroe-Woodbury High School in 1983 and attended Columbia University.
She graduated cum laude from Brooklyn College.
Szalavitz was addicted to cocaine and heroin in her late teens and early twenties, an experience that has informed her writing on addiction.
Szalavitz is an investigative reporter for Time magazine, and since 2004 has been a senior fellow at George Mason University's media watchdog group Statistical Assessment Service.
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.
Szalavitz is 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 industry.
In 2009, Szalavitz partnered with Brent W. Jeffs and released Lost Boy, a biography of Jeffs's life in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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.
Paul Raeburn at Knight Science Journalism at MIT called her "the best writer I know of on addiction and related issues."
Szalavitz blogs for the Huffington Post and 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 was a 2015 Soros Media fellow, which supported her in writing this book.
In 2021 she published a history of the harm reduction movement, Undoing Drugs : the Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction.
In March 2016, her book Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction was published by St. Martin's Press.
