NDEWS was first funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) in 2014 as an expansion of its longstanding Community Epidemiology Workgroup (CEWG). Through July 2020, the first iteration of this system was overseen by researchers at the University of Maryland Center for Substance…
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.
NDEWS Rapid Street Report (RSR) reports are published in the NDEWS Weekly Briefing and then archived here. These reports summarize anonymous self‑reported substance use covering the past 12 months and past 30 days, collected during RSR data collection visits to different sites across the US, with…
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
Following the NDEWS 4th Annual Summit, members of the NDEWS Coordinating Center (CC) will present a late-breaking abstract, an oral presentation, symposiums, and posters showcasing our latest data while at CPDD. In addition to presenting at CPDD, NDEWS Director, Dr. Linda Cottler (MPI), will deliver the keynote during the 2025 CPDD/RSA Joint Program focusing on NDEWS.
The State and National Overdose Web (SNOW) is an interactive dashboard directed by NDEWS Co-Investigator Dr. Bruce Goldberger. SNOW contains information regarding drug-related outcomes in participating NDEWS sentinel sites across the United States. SNOW is publicly available and…
Each month, NDEWS Sentinel Site Directors report on the current landscape of drug use in their communities through quantitative and qualitative data. Trends include data on drug seizures, laboratory testing, community drug checking, novel psychoactive substances, and overdoses (fatal and nonfatal). Continuous integration of these reports ensures NDEWS can…
Rapid Street Reporting (RSR) is a national venue-intercept study focused on the NDEWS Sentinel Sites as well as “hotspot” locations. Hotspot sites are identified using US overdose trends captured in EMS encounter data from…
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,…
Previously funded by NIDA as a Cooperative Agreement in April 2020, the second iteration of NDEWS is led by our Coordinating Center, comprised of scientists and staff from the University of Florida, New York University, and Florida Atlantic University. Through this second iteration, NDEWS incorporates real-time…
