Episode #66 High Truths on Drugs and Addiction with Chauncey Parker and CDC Overdose Response Strategy
Can Public Health and Public Safety overcome suspicion of each other and create a partnership to prevent overdoses? Follow the North Star is the key such partnerships according to Chauncey Parker. Learn about the ONDCP – CDC Overdose Response Strategy. Chauncey Parker Chauncey Parker is the Director of the New York/New Jersey HIDTA, a federally-funded […]
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 #97 High Truths on Drugs and Addiction with Dr. William Lynch on Vaping
Is vaping helping people quit smoking or creating new smokers? In a simulation model, scientists calculated 3000 years of life gained in smokers who quit through vaping. They also calculated 1,500,000 years of life lost in teens and young adults who started vaping who otherwise would have never smoked. 3000 years gained verses 1.5 million […]
Episode #109 High Truths on Drugs and Addiction with Dr. Lynn Silver on Getting It Right From the Start with Marijuana
Dr. Lynn Silver talks to High Truths about the history of marijuana legalization and best practices for policies that protect public health. Lynn Silver, MD, MPH, FAAP Pediatrician, public health researcher and advocate, Silver is Senior Advisor at the Public Health Institute (PHI) and Clinical Professor at University of California San Francisco. She directs PHI’s […]
196. Going After Big Tobacco | Richard Daynard
There is a lot to learn from the history of Big Tobacco, and we can get that history from Professor Richard Daynard, the man who went after Big Tobacco. Professor Daynard is at the forefront of an international movement to establish the legal responsibility of the tobacco industry for tobacco-induced death, disease and disability. He […]
How California’s legal cannabis dream became a public health Nightmare
Eve Simmons – The Mail + July 3, 2022 Eve visited California from the UK as her country is considering cannabis legalization
