Wednesday |
LifeTime Fitness
186 Middlesex Turnpike, Burlington, MA 01803
Please join us for the 5th Annual Women’s Wellness Event as part of BTEA’s Building Trades Recovery Week. All women of the industry are encouraged to join us.
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM: Lunch & Networking
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Breaking the Stigma with Maia Szalavitz
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Wellness Session with Alex Amorosi
Maia SzalavitzAward-Winning Neuroscience Author, Journalist & Mental Health Advocate
Maia Szalavitz is the author, most recently, of Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm
Reduction and the Future of Addiction, which is the first history of the movement aimed at
focusing drug policy on minimizing harms, not highs.
Her previous New York Times bestseller, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of
Understanding Addiction wove together neuroscience and social science with her personal
experience of heroin addiction. It won the 2018 media award from the National Institute on
Drug Abuse.
She writes regularly for The New York Times and has written for numerous other
publications including TIME, Wired, Elle, The Nation, Vice, The Guardian and Scientific American.
