Community Drug Early Warning System (CDEWS)
CESAR staff worked with the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) to develop the Community Drug Early Warning System (CDEWS), a rapid and low‐cost system for identifying emerging drugs at the local community level.
Project Funding
CESAR is always looking for projects that will engage our research, evaluation and implementation expertise.
Recent funding:
- ARTEMIS: Advancing Addiction Research and Treatment through Engagement with Rural Marylanders Impacted by Polysubstance Use
- CESAR Receives Grant to Create Digital Hub Serving Peer Recovery Specialists in Maryland
- UMD Study to Evaluate Six Maryland Counties’ Law Enforcement Diversion Programs
- Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trial to Evaluate a Scalable, Peer-Delivered Intervention for Depression among People with Substance Use Disorder in a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic
- Home-Based Community Health Worker Support for Mental Health among People Living with HIV in South Africa: A Hybrid Effectiveness Implementation Trial
About NDEWS | Years 1-6
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded the Center for Substance Use, Addiction & Health Research (CESAR) at the University of Maryland, College Park, to develop this nationwide public health surveillance system from 2014 to 2020. As of Au..
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- National Drug Early Warning System: The First Six Years
- Highlights from NDEWS Sentinel Community Site 2020 Reports
- Two Updates: Availability and Use of Methamphetamine in the U.S.
- DOTS Bulletins - De-Identified Urine Testing
- Final Webinar presented by Eric D. Wish, Ph.D.: Remembrance of Things Passed: Using Urinalysis Results to Monitor Emerging Drug Use, DUF to EDDS
- NFLIS Data Visualization Archive (2007-2018)
- NDEWS 2020
MPower
CESAR participates in the MPowering the State (MPower) Opioid Use Disorders Research Collaboration, which supports work between research scientists at the University of Maryland’s Baltimore (UMB) and College Park (UMCP) campuses.
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Completed Research
CESAR has worked on a multitude of national, state, and local projects over the past 30 years, across many domains. Below are just a few examples of our completed projects.
Epidemiological Monitoring
State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup (SEOW): ..
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Reinforcing Overdose Prevention Through Training & Advocacy (ROPTA)
In 2019 the University of Maryland Extension (UME) and CESAR launched Reinforcing Overdose Prevention Through Training & Advocacy (ROPTA) [formerly Maryland Rural Opioid Technical Assistance project (ROTA)]. The ongoing project focuses on providi..
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