The City Club of Cleveland examines the heroin epidemic in Cuyahoga County and the State of Ohio, which ranks 11th in the nation for the number of opiate-related deaths. Christina M. Delos Reyes, MD, program director of Addiction Psychiatry at University Hospitals Case Medical Center, participates in a panel discussion. Learn how the rise in prescription opiates increases heroin use in urban, suburban, and rural communities. Learn about strategies to address and reduce opiate addiction.

Our Center's work with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in Ohio was highlighted in a story by Jeb Phillips of The Columbus Dispatch. The story features Patrick Boyle, MSSA, LISW-S, LICDC-CS, of our Center as well as partners from the VA system. Learn more about the use of Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT), the evidence-based practice, for U.S. veterans in Ohio.

The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric recently aired a report on Supported Employment (SE), the evidence-based practice, featuring our own SE Consultant and Trainer Nicole Clevenger and a consumer-success story at Coleman Professional Services in Canton.

A recent story in Time magazine identified the high incidence of tobacco use and dependence among people with severe mental illness as one of the growing health concerns in the United States. The Ohio Tobacco and Recovery stages-of-change model is among the nation's cutting-edge efforts to improve health outcomes for this population.

The November/December 2008 cover story of the nationally distributed Social Work Today magazine features the Ohio Substance Abuse and Mental Illness Coordinating Center of Excellence (Ohio SAMI CCOE), an initiative of the Center for Evidence-Based Practices at Case Western Reserve University.