High Truths on Drugs and Addiction

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Dr. Mark Gold gives a historical perspective on field of addiction from the original research of the brain disorder to current events. Dr. Mark Gold is a frequent contributor to Psychology Today . Dr. Mark Gold is an inventor, pioneering translational researcher, Eminent Scholar, Distinguished Professor, & Chairman whose career in translational neuroscience began in 1972. His theories have cha...

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Richard Taite is the founder and Executive Chairman of Carrara Treatment Wellness & Spa, an “ultra” luxury addiction treatment facility, and the Executive Chairman of 1 Method Centers, affordable substance use disorder treatment facilities. Richard graduated from UCLA with a degree in Political Science and Public Law and intended to become a lawyer, but after st...

What is hemp? The congressional definition is anything less than 0.3% dry weight delta-9 THC. This presents a major loop hole, legalizing intoxicating products that are tested for the first time, not on lab rats, but on our children. Dr. Rossheim is an expert on these derived intoxicating cannabis products and shares his research. Matthew Rossheim, PhD, MPH, CPH, FAAHB is an Associate Professor in...

Teun Voeten ( www.teunvoeten.com  ) is author of The Devil's Drug.   https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538198612/The-Devil's-Drug-The-Global-Emergence-of-Crystal-Meth We discuss his new book. We also look at his photography work cover war, homeless and drugs - his captures the similarity in human suffering. Teun Voeten studied cultural anthropology and philosophy at Leiden university. As a photographer...

Cindy Cipriani, Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of California, develops partnerships and programs to enhance crime prevention and community resilience. She serves on the Executive Leadership Committee and Co-Chairs the Prevention and Education Committee of San Diego’s Substance Use and Overdose Prevention Task Force, a multi-disciplinary coalition that works across secto...

Drugs are smuggled into the US by land and sea and from Southern as well as Norther Border. Sheriff Milstead discusses the Northern Border. Mike Milstead began his law enforcement career in 1973 with the Sioux Falls Police Department (SFPD).  He served over 24 years on the SFPD, with assignments in all Divisions of that department, rising to the rank of Lieutenant detailed as the Night Shift Comma...

The Impact of Schizophrenia Genetic Load and Heavy Cannabis Use on the Risk of Psychotic Disorder in the EU-GEI case control and UK Biobank studies.  This article published in Psychology Magazine Apri 2024 studied 114,698 European patients to determine if genetics was associated with cannabis associated psychotic disorder. Regular users of high potency THC (over 10%) had the highest odds of psycho...

Dr. Matthew Fedoruk currently works as the Chief Science Officer leading the Science & Research team at the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). Dr. Fedoruk is considered an expert in the scientific aspects of anti-doping matters and has reviewed hundreds of results management cases while at USADA and provided credible scientific guidance and opinion to resolve many anti-doping analytical and non-...

Dr. Lora Peppard is the Executive Director of the  Center for Advancing Prevention Excellence  at the University of Baltimore and the Director of  ADAPT , a national training and technical assistance division for substance use prevention for the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program out of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. She also serves as the Immediate Past President of the Ame...

School based prevention education is one of the pillars to tackling the drug crisis along with treatment and supply. LEAD is a key partner in this effort. Nick DeMauro  is the Executive Director of Law Enforcement Against Drugs and Violence  (L.E.A.D.)  Under Nick’s leadership, L.E.A.D. has grown to be the country’s leading organization teaching first responders and community leaders how to effect...

What are the effects of cannabis on the cardiovascular system? Dr. Chandy helps clear the haze. The American Heart Association has established the facts. Dr. Mark Chandy earned his MD and Ph. D. in 2008, at Pennsylvania State University. After completing medical school, Dr. Chandy trained in Internal Medicine at the University of British Columbia, followed by a Cardiology fellowship at the Univers...

What does the textile industry and families against fentanyl have in common? They both want to eliminate the De Minimus Loophole that allow foreign goods under $800 to pass into the United States with little scrutiny or taxes. It is one way fentanyl is entering the US. Kim Glas joined the National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) in May 2019 as President and CEO. NCTO represents the broad s...

Jan Rader is a star of the Netflix special Heroin(e) and hero in West Virginia in the drug epidemic. Native of Ironton, Ohio, Jan Rader joined the Huntington Fire Department in August of 1994. Ms. Rader is the first woman to reach the rank of Chief for a career department in the State of West Virginia. She holds a Regents Bachelor of Arts degree from Marshall University and an Associates Degree of...

Alcohol prohibition. Taxes. Quality standards. Potency regulation. What can healthcare policy learn from alcohol and tobacco and apply to today's cannabis market? David Jernigan, PhD, is a Professor of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health, and senior policy advisor for CityHealth, a project of the de Beaumont Foundation that provides leaders with a pac...

Disease burden is the impact of a health problem as measured by financial cost, mortality, morbidity or other indicators. When it comes to drugs, we are always talking about overdoses and deaths.  The CDC predicted deaths in the US for the 12 months preceding March 2024, are over 103,000. That is horrible and unacceptable. Death is just the tip of the iceberg. For every death there are many more w...

Dr. Nora D. Volkow, M.D.,  is the longest residing Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health since 2003. She is the world's go to person when it comes to the issue of drugs, and commonly known as the mother to the science demonstrating that drug addiction is a brain disorder.  Dr. Volkow continues her tradition of starting the High Truths podcast...

Hello and Welcome to Season 5 of  High Truths on Drugs and Addiction. What an honor and joy I have from hosting High Truths.  Each episode I have great discussions with fascinating and knowledge people who get me thinking and teach me something new. It is like the Talmudic saying in Ethics of our Fathers, Who is Wise, One who learns from every person. And you and I learn so much from our High Trut...

The High Truths Season Finale airs the live conversation from December 13 with Drs. Bertha Madras, Libby Stuyt and Aaron Weiner. The experts share their reflections on 2024, hopes for 2025, and advice for the new Trump administration.

Cannabis Use Disorder and Cannabis Induced Psychosis is a common diagnosis of adolescent psychiatrist. Listen to Dr. David Rettew's tips in diagnosis and how to speak to young people about marijuana. David Rettew, MD is a child & adolescent psychiatrist who currently works as the Medical Director of Lane County Behavioral Health in Eugene, Oregon.  He is also a clinical faculty member in the P...

The United States's Drug Czar is in charge the nation's drug policy. We can learn from the historical perspectives of our prior leaders. Gil Kerlikowske shared his insights. I served as the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), having been nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate in March, 2014.  Having left office in January 2017, I will be the only confirmed C...

Ben traveled to China to buy some fentanyl precursors. What he learned shapes health policy to this day. Now he is banned from China travel. Ben Westhoff is an award-winning investigative reporter whose books are taught around the country and have been translated around the world, including  Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Created the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic , the bombshell first...

Once upon a time, a long time ago, in 1990, people were dying of prescription opioids. Those were the 'good ol days" when 100 people a day were dying from drugs. Today we are at 300 a day. There is much to learn from history and my conversation with Mary Bono. The Honorable Mary Bono is a successful businesswoman and well-known political leader, Congresswoman Mary Bono was hailed as the "embodimen...

Drug hijack your dopamine. Dopamine is a neurochemical we need to live. We need it like oxygen and water. Without it, people feel they are dying. Anna Lembke, MD  is professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she is the author of more than a hundred peer-reviewed publications, has testif...

Dawn, a prevention specialist noticed brightly colored packing of mushroom products in a smoke shop near a school. She wanted to know what they were selling children. Dawn found Josh Swider who agreed to testing of several products. The results were shocking - the products included a range of chemicals from THC to bath salts. Consumer protections are important for food and all types of drugs, espe...