Front Row: E. Siegel, J. Scaglione, E. Otten, G. Bond, A. Aumentado
Back Row: D. Petersen, J. Colvin, E. Chaffin, T. Carson
The DPIC served a population of 4.7 million in 38 Ohio counties. With 25 American Association of Poison Control Center Cerified Specialists in Poison Information and 54 staff certified in National Incident Management Systems DPIC is one of the largest Centers in the country. World events have continued to reinforce and define our community and public health services. The DPIC continued its collaborations with Regional Medical Response Systems, various county disaster committees,and the Ohio Department of Health's Disaster Preparedness and Response program, including working with a Health Alert Network to send out Alert faxes to 78 regional hospitals on subjects such as rocket fuel from satellite reentry, rabies vaccine, blue green algae in the river and contaminatated heroin.
The Prevention Research Unit of the DPIC implements programming to promote healthy drug free lifestyles. Program services involve youth, parents, and members of the community. The staff of the Prevention Research Unit includes prevention specialists and other professionals (e.g. health educators, pharmacists, other health care professionals, military personnel and law enforcement officers) who also serve as positive role models in the community. Over 500,000 individuals in Hamilton County have benefitted from services provided by the Prevention Research Unit. Approximately 3,500 community residents have received intense substance abuse prevention and education services. The Prevention Research Unit also provides programming to address delinquency prevention and violence prevention issues among African-American youth populations. Other services provided by this community activity division of DPIC include the REACH and NOMAD projects.
DPIC was chosen to participate in an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Drinking Water Surveillance Project
DPIC is an active participant in the multicenter network of the Researched Abuse Diversion and Addicted Related Surveillance (RADARS) project.
DPIC was honored with a second visit from the "Drug Czar" John P. Walters, Director of the White House Office for National Drug Control Policy. He invited our Director G. Randall Bond M.D. and Jan Scaglione, Pharm.D. to represent this area for the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Community Epidemiology Work Group (CEWG).
Surge Capacity for Emergency Assistance Management (SCREAM) facilitates emergency phone coverage in a potential disaster
Interfaced with the hospital and public health infrastucture to assist with preparedness plans involving nerve gas as weapons of mass destruction and antidotal ChemPacks
