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CPDRE: PEACE Grant Press Release

CPDRE: PEACE Grant Press Release

2-minute read | Posted on October 13, 2025 | Posted in: From Our Centers

A new program from the Center for Psychedelic Drug Research and Education (CPDRE) in The Ohio State University College of Social Work is helping prepare health care workers and first responders with tools to treat people suffering adverse reactions to psychedelic drugs.

Over the last decade, there has been increased media coverage of the potential benefits of using psychedelic drugs for medicinal and therapeutic purposes. Consequently, there has also been a corresponding rise in unsupervised use of these drugs.

This is where the newly funded Psychedelic Emergency, Acute, and Continuing Care Education (PEACE) program comes in. The program, developed and administered by CPDRE and funded by a $400,000 SOAR Innovation grant from the Ohio Department of Behavioral Health (DBH), consists of in-person seminars and online training materials for emergency departments, first responders, law enforcement and behavioral health professionals.

Seminars will be held in January, March and July of 2026.

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