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Gary Mendell

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  1. Milken Institute1h 0m

    Opioid Addiction: A Crisis Fueled by Stigma

    Sarah Karlin-Smith, Kelly Clark, Gary Mendell, Andrey Ostrovsky, Nora Volkow, Ronnie Solomon, Michael Golinkoff

    A panel of leading experts, including Dr. Kelly Clark and Gary Mendel, identifies deep-seated stigma as a primary driver of the opioid crisis that obstructs effective funding and policy implementation. To combat this, organizations like Shatterproof propose a seven-point strategy shifting addiction from a criminal justice issue to a chronic disease model, while researchers in Rhode Island demonstrate that medication access for released inmates drastically reduces overdose mortality. Despite these clinical victories, persistent structural barriers such as the X-waiver requirement, inadequate federal budget allocations, and restrictive privacy laws continue to hinder widespread adoption of evidence-based treatments.

  2. Milken Institute58 min

    Cracking the Code of Addiction and Mental Health

    Lynn Goldman, Thomas Insel, Gary Mendell, Richard Pops, Garen Staglin, Nora Volkow

    A panel of experts from NIDA and public health organizations identifies the opioid crisis as a preventable epidemic driven by systemic healthcare failures, including aggressive pharmaceutical marketing and inadequate medical training, which have caused mortality rates among white non-Hispanic Americans to rise for the first time in history. To address this, the group advocates for mandating CDC prescribing limits, expanding access to proven medication-assisted treatments, and shifting workplace cultures to reduce stigma, emphasizing that the primary obstacle remains the implementation of existing evidence-based protocols rather than a lack of scientific knowledge. Despite these proposed solutions facing significant barriers such as insurance coverage gaps and reimbursement policies that delay care, the consensus holds that coordinated policy changes could reduce new addiction rates by half and reverse decades of escalating overdose deaths.