Post-CPDD Briefing

The 86th CPDD Annual Meeting is now over; held in Montreal this past week, the meeting had the highest attendance ever! On Saturday, we held our annual NDEWS Summit. In attendance were nearly 65 individuals in person and on Zoom.

Our agenda included a welcome from NIDA, updates from the NDEWS Coordinating Center and Sentinel Sites, the sharing of our latest publications, and a review of the presentations scheduled for the week. Much of our time together was spent listening to attendees discuss new partnership ideas, research questions to be addressed, and new approaches for integrating data. We look forward to implementing many of these ideas.

In addition, many colleagues praised the quality of our posters, highlighting the excellent work done by our trainees. Tam Millay’s talk on psychedelics received rave reviews for its compelling content and superb delivery. Additionally, our symposium on emerging trends from NDEWS, including insights from wastewater analysis and contributions from our colleagues in Canada an Mexico, garnered positive feedback.

Overall, we gained 50 new Weekly Briefing subscribers so far!

The National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS) is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (U01DA051126) to the University of Florida (PI: Cottler; Co-Is: Goldberger, Nixon, Striley), New York University (Deputy Director: Palamar), and Florida Atlantic University (Co-I: Barenholtz).