You may want to support the mission of High Truths  – bringing relentless advocacy to unify addiction medicine with mental health and physical health. Dr. Lev  fights for her patients, for Americans and communities. She thinks out of the box with programs such as: 

• Free Naloxone prescriptions. We can’t wait for the FDA to come up with an over the counter solution – so download this solution.

• Increase Fentanyl testing to engage patients and the medical community in awareness and treatment. There is no FDA approved rapid urine multi-drug test that includes fentanyl. Dr. Lev and San Diego leaders wrote FDA and asked for emergency use for fentanyl. They did it for COVID, we should have it for Fentanyl. In the meantime, there are work around solutions for hospitals.

•  Contact tracing for overdose clusters. Public health does tracing for food contamination and COVID. We can save lives with contact tracing for overdose clusters.

• Improve addiction treatment by elevating the bar for the profession. There are great addiction treatment programs out there, but unfortunately there is fraud. Voluntary consensus standards can improve treatment for everyone.

• We need a marijuana dashboard like we have for opioids. How many people are coming to emergency department for marijuana poisoning? How many with THC are admitted for psychiatric care? What is the medical examiner finding related to marijuana? Will it take 100 years to figure this out like it did for tobacco? 

• Hollywood did so much for tobacco in terms of prevention and messages such as – do you want to kiss an ash tray? We need product placement on TV shows and Movies for addiction medicine, the dangers of sharing medications, and strong prevention and treatment modeling.