Evidence Based

Richard Kruszynski, director of the Center for Evidence-Based Practices and the Ohio Substance Use Disorder Center of Excellence, has been appointed to the Chemical Dependency Professionals Board by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine. The board, a state regulatory agency within Ohio’s Department of Mental Heal...

Mandel School team launches a statewide initiative With consistently high death rates from drug overdoses—including opioids—Ohio remains in crisis. To tackle substance-use disorders at a statewide level, leaders at a new Case Western Reserve center are creating new systems and outreach initiatives ...

Signal Cleveland: Southeast Human Service Center is a behavioral health treatment clinic in Fargo, North Dakota. In the early 2000s, the staff was seeing more clients with both severe mental health and substance abuse issues. Many were dying. In 2006, they reached out to a center within Case Weste...

WKYC: Ric Kruszynski, director of the Center for Evidence-Based Practices (CEBP) in the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, discussed the state’s new $6 million grant to launch the Substance Use Center of Excellence at the university to help combat Ohio's growing opioid epid...

University will train addiction care providers in evidence-based best practices and provide implementation, evaluation support Ohio had the nation’s fourth-highest rate of unintentional drug-overdose deaths according to most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). To...