When elected, I will support proven prevention programs, a relativity small part of the budget has traditionally gone to programs focus on prevention. Will work to increase funding for prevention programs. Montana consistently has among the highest mortality rates due to drugs, alcohol and suicide in the nation, drug overdoses cost Montana 1,400, suicide takes 250 Montanans annually and in 2020 Montana experience the highest number of alcohol related deaths in twenty years with over 260 losing their lives. In 2019, nearly 80% of substance use related emergency medical service calls involved alcohol. 42% of suicide victims had alcohol in the systems. Medicaid Expansion brought nearly $54 million of new federal dollars to Montana to support substance use disorder prevention and treatment: funding for prevention services has doubled. New Medicaid funds helped Montana expand the number of providers to provide Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT). The number of providers granted a waiver to provide buprenorphine increased by over 700% between 2017 and 2021. In 2017 only 22 providers were wavered, in 2021 there is 180.