We believe the best way to treat addiction is to understand it. Which is why we continue to educate not just our patients, but their family, friends and community.
Last Saturday, BrightView took to the streets of Cincinnati for the Pride Parade & Festival. The team distributed slightly over 350 Narcan kits during the day’s festivities. We are proud to be a part of this wonderful city and look forward to continuing to serve those in need of addiction…
The month of March is Women’s History Month and March 8th marks International Women’s Day. Women worldwide have achieved unprecedented accomplishments including becoming billionaires, Nobel Peace Prize Winners, actors, world leaders, and CEOs. However, addiction continues to run rampant among females, as it knows no boundaries. It does, however, affect…
These myths about drugs and addiction are making the opioid epidemic worse CINCINNATI — By a host of measurements, the opioid epidemic delivered another year of devastating blows to countless families and communities in 2017. Below is a video by Cincinnati’s WCPO featuring BrightView’s Dr. Shawn Ryan and other addiction…
Amy’s Story – As a child growing up in Cincinnati, OH, Amy Parker struggled with mental health issues, and by the age of 14, she began cycling in and out of psychiatric hospitals, where her medications would be shifted, and she would be released only to return upon another violent…
While public health workers might dive head into the main components of the opioid epidemic – which are drugs such as fentanyl, morphine, and heroin – scientists dig deeper, getting to the root of the problem which are opioid receptors, or the proteins that these drugs latch onto within the…
WCPO CINCINNATI – The region’s largest health system has launched a new partnership to help more patients battling addiction enter treatment programs more easily and quickly. Mercy Health is teaming with 10 addiction treatment providers across Greater Cincinnati that will offer long-term treatment and recovery options for patients on a…
Often referred to as a devastating disaster for the U.S. medical system – the opioid addiction epidemic has been on the forefront of headlines for a long time, with no end in sight. However, portraying opioid addiction as just an American problem or trend overlooks the fact that this epidemic…
