Interested in learning more about NDEWS? Join us for our annual summit! The NDEWS 5th Annual Summit will be held on Saturday, June 13 from 2:00–6:00 pm PT as a hybrid event. While registration for the CPDD conference is not required to attend the NDEWS Summit, we encourage you to register and join us for additional presentations by NDEWS Coordinating Center and Early Warning Network.
In 2025, NDEWS launched a new component consisting of quarterly surveys to informal networks sent on a rotating basis. They incorporate groups who offer a unique insight into local trends related to substance use, including new routes of administration, polysubstance use, drug-related mortality, changes in the drug supply, and associated…
We invite you to join us for the upcoming Our Community, Our Health Town Hall - NDEWS Webinar with the National Association of State Controlled Substances Authorities (NASCSA). Topic: The National Drug Early Warning System: Emergency Overdose Trends, Emerging Drugs of Abuse and Why this Matters to States
Jim Hall is a retired epidemiologist who worked for 35 years at Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Florida, and since 1982 has served as director of the Up Front Drug Information Center in Miami. From 1984 to 2014, he served as the Florida representative to the NIDA Community Epidemiology Work Group (CEWG), the predecessor to NDEWS. Through Nova Southeastern University, Hall more recently served as a consultant with the United Way of Broward County’s Commission on Behavioral Health and Drug Prevention, formerly the Commission on Substance Abuse, which was one of the earliest drug-free community programs that is part of the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA).
The NIDA-funded NDEWS Coordinating Center at UF The National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS), funded to the University of Florida by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), provides the field with timely, salient, and valuable information on emerging…
The NDEWS Early Warning Network is comprised of three groups: Scientific Advisory Group (SAG), Sentinel Sites and Community-Based Health Experts. NDEWS SAG Members Epidemiology/Surveillance/Bioinformatics/Clinical Georgiy Bobashev, PhDRTI Senior Fellow, Center for Data Science, RTI International Dan Ciccarone, MD, MPHProfessor, Family Community Medicine, School of Medicine, University…
