Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse. Proceedings of the Community Epidemiology Work Group. Highlights and Executive Summary, January 2009

摘要

This Executive Summary provides a synthesis of findings from reports presented and data prepared for the 65th semiannual meeting of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Community Epidemiology Work Group (CEWG) held in San Francisco, California, on January 21-23, 2009. The CEWG is a network of researchers from sentinel sites throughout the United States. It meets semiannually to provide ongoing community-level public health surveillance of drug abuse through presentation and discussion of quantitative and qualitative data. CEWG representatives access multiple sources of existing data from their local areas to report on drug abuse patterns and consequences in their areas and to provide an alert to potentially emerging new issues.