Carlyn Zwarenstein
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(She/Her)
As seen in:
Live More Lives,
MSN,
Yahoo Life,
The Washington Post,
Yahoo News,
The Globe and Mail,
VICE,
Flipboard,
Salon,
Yahoo,
Middle East Eye
and
Covers:
biology, public health, literature, science, politics, environment, social policy, drug policy, pain, housing and homelessness
Journalist/writer on science, this lovely ruined world. ON OPIUM: Pain, Pleasure, & Other Matters of Substance, my 2nd book. See website 4 that & other writing
Carlyn Zwarenstein’s Biography
Carlyn Zwarenstein is the author of On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance, and its predecessor, Opium Eater: The New Confessions, a Globe & Mail best book of 2016. She has been a science and health writer at Salon.com, and now writes most often about biology and the intersections between science and power. As an independent journalist, Carlyn has written for publications ranging from Our Times to High Times and from the Washington Post to Canadian Geographic. She lives in Toronto.