Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse. Volume 2: Proceedings of the CommunityEpidemiology Work Group. Held in Baltimore, Maryland on June 13-16, 2000

摘要

The Community Epidemiology Work Group (CEWG), established in 1976 by the NationalInstitute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), is a network of researchers from 21 major metropolitan areas of the United States who meet semiannually. The group's primary objective is to present and discuss the most recent drug abuse data from ongoing community-level public health suveillance, principally from epidemiologic and ethnographic research sources. The CEWG provides current descriptive and analytical information to public health and other officials and policymakers, the research community, and the general public regarding the current nature and patterns of drug abuse, emerging trends, characteristics of vulnerable populations, correlates of abuse, and social and health consequences. The 48th meeting of the CEWG, held in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 13-16, provided a forum for presentation and assessment of drug abuse indicator and other quantitative and qualitative data from the CEWG sites in the United States and from Canada, Mexico, Australia, South Africa, Pakistan, and other countries of Asia, Europe, and the Pacific Islands.