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NDEWS CPDD Posters and Presentations

This weekend, the NDEWS team will be traveling to attend the 86th College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) Annual Meeting in Montreal, Quebec Canada. CPDD is the oldest and largest organization in the US dedicated to advancing a scientific approach to substance use and addictive disorders. The NDEWS team…

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…

Law enforcement fentanyl seizures and overdose mortality in US counties

A study recently published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence, co-authored by NDEWS researchers Dr. Joseph Palamar, Dr. Nicole Fitzgerald, Dr. Linda Cottler, and NDEWS affiliate Dr. Tom Carr, examined overall and drug-specific associations between county-level fentanyl burden––based on seizures of fentanyl in pills and powder, pills-only, or powder only––and…

Dr. Joseph Palamar Named Deputy Director of NDEWS

Joseph Palamar, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Medical Center, has been named Deputy Director of NDEWS. He is a Co-Investigator in our NIDA-funded U01 study, he serves as chair of the Scientific Advisory Group, and has been researching the epidemiology of drug use for over…

NDEWS awarded two administrative supplements

In July 2021, the NDEWS Coordinating Center was awarded two administrative supplements from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to expand our efforts to monitor new and emerging drug trends through two new initiatives: wastewater-based epidemiology and national Poison Control data. Led by Dr. Tara Sabo-Atwood, the wastewater-based epidemiology initiative…

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).