Episode #4 – High Truths on Drugs and Addiction Secretary Dr. Ben Carson. The Trifecta of Addiction, Mental Health, and Homelessness.
Secretary Dr. Ben Carson joins High Truths and Dr. Roneet Lev to discuss the trifecta for addiction, mental illness, and homelessness. He answers questions from emergency physicians and psychologist.
Episode #78 High Truths on Drugs and Addiction with Dr. Tom Frieden on Public Health
Can the public health solution to drug overdoses follow the public health model for COVID?Can we do contact tracing for overdoses like we do for infectious diseases? Dr. Tom Frieden, former CDC director say yes. Dr. Tom Frieden is a physician trained in internal medicine, infectious diseases, public health, and epidemiology. He is former director […]
Episode #87 High Truths on Drugs and Addiction with Alex Berenson, author of Tell Your Children About Marijuana
Does marijuana cause mental illness and violence? Alex Berenson published a doctorate type research in his book – Tell Your Children. Alex is also known for being cancelled by Twitter for his views on the COVID vaccine. Alex Berenson was born in New York in 1973 and grew up in Englewood, N.J. After graduating from […]
Episode #108 High Truths on Drugs and Addiction with Dr. David Baranger on Mental Health Burden with Prenatal Cannabis Use
A recent publication in JAMA Pediatrics shows that mental health burdens are associated with prenatal cannabis exposure that persists from childhood to early adolescence. These are results from the Longitudinal ABCD (Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development) study. David Baranger, PhD I am a Neuroscientist and Postdoc at Washington University in St. Louis. My primary interest is […]
Episode #134 High Truths on Drugs and Addiction with Dr. Miriam Delphin-Rittmon on SAMHSA
SAMHSA, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is charged with public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of our nation. This includes drug prevention and treatment programs. Mental health and Addiction health very much overlap. Of the 20 million people who have a SUD about 50% also have mental illness. Of the […]
Episode #140 High Truths on Drugs and Addiction with Dr. Sandy Schneider and American College of Emergency Physicians
Sandy Schneider, MD, FACEP, is associate executive director and past president of the American College of Emergency Physicians, ACEP. Dr Schneider is also the adjunct professor of emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. She remains clinically active as a part-time attending with integrative emergency services at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. […]
Episode # 147 High Truths on Drugs and Addiction with Eric Gremminger on mental health and SUD
There is much overlap between mental health and SUD, substance use disorder. 44%, almost half of everyone with a SUD has some form of mental illness. Eric Gremminger trains behavioral health professionals on using patient reported outcome measures for personalized clinical pathways. Eric Gremminger, ICADC Eric is CEO and Co-Founder of ERPHealth and a nationally […]
