On Opium interview with Carlyn Zwarenstein

Rebel Girls Book Club

This week Harmony interviews Carlyn Zwarenstein about her book On Opium Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance. We talk about the war on drugs and its relationship to capitalism, chronic pain and the struggle to get treatment, and the particular stigmas and drug policies lobbied against opium and opioid users.

Buy the book in print (or via ebook if you're in Canada):

https://alllitup.ca/books/O/On-Opium

Listen to the audiobook internationally:

https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781773058801

For more on the effectiveness and safety of current opioid use disorder treatment options check out these studies:

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32022884/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33320266/

Follow Carlyn's work:

http://carlynzwarenstein.com

And on Twitter at @CarlynZwaren

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