Overview

• Published September 9, Breaking Awake is being launched with feature interviews in Interview Magazine and Vogue that outline its core argument.
• Moskowitz contends that drugs—prescribed or illicit—function as tools whose effects depend on context, captured by the refrain, “You’re not crazy, the world is.”
• The author critiques an overreliance on prescription fixes, stressing they are not anti-medication or anti-vaccine but are critical of corporate control and opaque science, and seek a clear left perspective distinct from MaHA rhetoric.
• Reporting in the book highlights Vancouver’s Drug User Liberation Front compassion club, where tested supplies reportedly produced zero deaths and fewer overdoses among participants before police later raided the operation and charged its founders.
• Amid renewed enthusiasm for psychedelics, Moskowitz warns that treatments like MDMA and ketamine, along with harm-reduction tools, cannot substitute for broader community care and structural change.