National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

If you are having thoughts of hurting yourself or another person, call:

988

If 988 is unavailable, or if you are experiencing a medical emergency, call 911.

Health.gov

Find a health department near you for help with labs, other studies, nutrition, vaccines, health screenings and treatment for infections, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and obesity.

MedlinePlus.gov

Learn about your health, medications, supplements, genetics and testing with information from the National Library of Medicine.

Medication Collection Sites

“Help the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) prevent drug misuse before it starts and rid medicine cabinets of unused, unwanted medications year-round at one of the nearly 17,000 collection sites around the country.” These locations accept unused medications year-round - search by your location here.

HarmReduction.org

The above website has resources like clean needle exchange and naloxone to reverse an opioid overdose.

What is Harm Reduction?

If you are relapsing, use the following website to call an ambulance if you overdose:

Safe Spot (1-800-972-0590)

SAMHSA.gov

Visit the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration website to find treatment across the United States.

Find other physicians and providers whose treatment of people with opioid use disorder may include FDA approved medications including buprenorphine.

“From 1999-2019, nearly 500,000 people died from an overdose involving any opioid, including prescription and illicit opioids.” [1] Presently 136 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose. 90% of people with less than a year of medication assisted treatment struggle with relapse. [1] Wide-ranging online data for epidemiologic research (WONDER). Atlanta, GA: CDC, National Center for Health Statistics; 2020. http://wonder.cdc.gov.

Medication-Assisted Recovery Anonymous

Join a recovery community (support group) that welcomes patients taking evidence based medicine for addiction today.

More Mental Health Resources:

TheWork.com of Byron Katie

Apply this free, brilliant, simple tool to question your thoughts.

PsychologyToday.com

Search for a talk therapist who fits your intentions for healing.

OpenPathCollective.org

Search for a talk therapist offering discounts on hourly rates.

Jennifer Piercy

Guided “body scans” (in the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy manual) also known as “yoga nidra” meditations for sleep and coping with strong emotions.

Direct Primary Care

Find a physician who works directly with patients, regardless of insurance, more affordably than concierge: DPC locator map.

Upper East Tennessee Human Development Agency

Offering help with housing and bills and recovery from disasters.

Nutrition

Find a nutrition expert: https://www.eatright.org/find-a-nutrition-expert (Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics)

Community Supported Agriculture

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) connects farmers and local people who want fresh food. I personally find the food more fresh and delicious, and I learn more ways to cook. I find the CSA more than saves money I would have spent on fresh food at the grocery store.

Click here and search for a local farm that delivers fresh food. I skipped the first question, “What are you looking for?”, answered the second question with a zip code, selected “CSA” for the third question, and clicked “Search”. Adjusting the radius “within 30 miles” to “within 250 miles” may help find a farm that delivers to a location actually much closer to you (than 250 miles).

Read more about CSA here.

learn from experts

• Find credible, evidence based guidance about vaccines:

  • Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Vaccine Education Center

  • American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP: healthychildren.org)

• Use the following resources to counter disinformation (intentional lies) and misinformation (unintentional inaccuracies) you’ve encountered on social media or using “artificial intelligence”:

  • Dan Wilson, PhD (molecular biology) on “Debunk the Funk”

  • Professors Chris Kavanagh (anthropologist) and Matthew Browne (psychologist) on Decoding the Gurus

  • Drs. Jessica Steier (public health) and Sarah Scheinman (neurobiology) on Unbiased Science

  • Paul Offit, MD, Professor of pediatrics, author and co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine on Substack

• Take a course or tutor a student from pre-K through 12th grade advanced placement courses for free at Khan Academy.

• Take free courses from MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Georgetown, Tennessee and other universities at EdX.

• Review peer reviewed published literature in the National Library of Medicine and with Google Scholar

• Listen to or watch the latest episode of This Week in Virology, and read along with links to the latest journal articles. Or tune in to any of Microbe.TV’s “Science Shows by Scientists” to learn about your immune and nervous systems, evolution, microbiology, parasitism, agriculture, engineering, public health and more!

• Take a free virology course.

• Search COVID 19 randomized controlled trials by medication or therapy

• Follow the latest evidence about managing long COVID (PASC or post-acute sequelae of COVID)

• Search for payments made by pharmaceutical companies to physicians (for scientific research, talks, etc):

  • ProPublica “Dollars for Docs”

  • Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS.gov) “Open Payments”

engagE civically

• Download the “Libby” app on your devices and support local libraries everywhere you can - they are a national treasure.

• Support publicly funded independent programming on PBS and NPR. Local public radio and TV stations are often the only source of trustworthy local news, including warnings and other lifesaving information before and during disasters like Hurricane Helene. This is especially true for native and rural populations across our country. Preserve these institutions so we can preserve our collective health and well-being.

• Call your local, state and federal representatives and tell them to:

  • reform our departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with credible experts who will actually protect our collective health and environment

  • rebuild our National Institutes of Health (NIH), which before it was destroyed in 2025 was the world’s premier research institution

  • support our Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other public health institutions to protect us from the greatest threats to our safety and well being

  • break up tech monopolies

  • support immigration - the vast majority of US citizens are descendants of immigrants

  • invest in universal public education, universal health care and other resources to counterbalance the many social determinants of ill health we suffer from in this country.