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Manuals

• Assessing Drug Abuse Within and Across Communities

http://www.drugabuse.gov/pubs/assessing/
To help communities understand their local drug abuse problems NIDA developed this guidebook to assist in the development of a drug abuse epidemiologic surveillance systems to assess local drug abuse patterns and trends. This model can be used by states counties cities and communities. It is based on the work of NIDA's Community Epidemiology Work Group (CEWG) a national surveillance network composed of researchers from around the country that has been meeting biannually for more than 20 years to monitor drug use and abuse trends.

• Barefoot Epidemiologist

http://www.newmeyer.com/essay_template.php?id=15
This paper by John Newmeyer was written in 1991 and is still an excellent introduction to needs assessment.

National Surveys

• Monitoring the Future Survey

http://www.nida.nih.gov/DrugPages/MTF.html
The Monitoring the Future Survey (National School Survey) conducted by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health has tracked 12th graders' illicit drug use and attitudes towards drugs since 1975.

• Youth Risk Behavior Survey

http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/yrbs/index.htm
Conducted by the Center for Disease Control The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) was developed in 1990 to monitor priority health risk behaviors that contribute markedly to the leading causes of death disability and social problems among youth and adults in the United States. To this end the CDC has conducted a number of Youth Risk Behavior Surveys.

• National Survey on Drug Use and Health

http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/nsduh.htm
SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use & Health [formerly called the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA)] is the primary source of information on the prevalence patterns and consequences of alcohol tobacco and illegal drug use and abuse in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized population age 12 and older. It is currently conducted by SAMHSA's Office of Applied Studies (OAS).

• The National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS)

http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/dasis.htm#nssats2
N-SSATS is an annual survey of all substance abuse treatment facilities in the I-SATS that collects information on location characteristics services offered and utilization. The N-SSATS includes a periodic survey of substance abuse treatment in adult and juvenile correctional facilities. Before 2000 the N-SSATS was known as the Uniform Facility Data Set (UFDS).

Examples of Local Epidemiological Reports

• Community Epidemiology Work Group (CEWG) City Reports

http://www.nida.nih.gov/about/organization/CEWG/reports.htm

Sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) CEWG reports are given at biannual meetings at which the network members discuss current and emerging problems of substance abuse across the U.S. At the meetings CEWG members present data on drug abuse from a variety of city state federal and other sources.

• State and City Profiles

http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/statelocal/state_and_city_profiles.htmlThe Office of National Drug Control Policy maintains state and city profiles of drug abuse indicators.

• Substance Abuse Trends in Texas

http://www.utexas.edu/research/cswr/gcattc/drugtrends.html
Published by the Gulf Coast Addiction Technology Transfer Center Center for Excellence in Drug Epidemiology located in the School of Social Work Research at the University of Texas at Austin this biannual report features drug trends in Texas.

Additional Data Sources

• Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) - Emergency Room Data

http://dawninfo.samhsa.gov/

• SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) - National and State Treatment Data

http://oas.samhsa.gov/dasis.htm#teds2

• National Forensic Laboratory Information System (NFLIS)

http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/nflis/index.html

• Automation of Reports and Consolidated Orders System (ARCOS)

http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/arcos/retail_drug_summary/index.html

• On-Line Analysis of Alcohol Tobacco and Drug Use

http://oas.samhsa.gov/SAMHDA.htm

• U.S. Census Bureau

http://www.factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en

• CDC's National Center for Health Statistics

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh.htm

• ONDCP's State and Local Profiles Contacts and Resources

http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/statelocal/index.html

• The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (Arrests)

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm

State Substance Abuse Data

• National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD) keeps current links to substance abuse data for a variety of states

http://www.nasadad.org/index.php?base_id=283

Recent Publications

• Maxwell, J.C and Dart, R.(2007). Increases in Methadone-Related Adverse EventsIncreases in Methadone-Related Adverse Events. UT Addiction Research Institute.

• Maxwell, J. C. (2006). Abuse of Prescription Drugs. Austin, TX: Gulf Coast ATTC.

http://www.utexas.edu/research/cswr/gcattc/documents/PrescriptionTrends_Web.pdf

• Maxwell, J. C. (2005). Implications of Research for Treatment: Methamphetamine. Austin Gulf Coast ATTC.

http://www.utexas.edu/research/cswr/gcattc/Methamphetamine.pdf

• Maxwell, J. C. (2005). Implications of Research for Treatment: Ecstasy. Austin, TX: Gulf Coast ATTC.

http://www.utexas.edu/research/cswr/gcattc/Ecstasy.pdf

• Maxwell, J. C. (2005). Implications of Research for Treatment: GHB. Austin, TX: Gulf Coast ATTC.

http://www.utexas.edu/research/cswr/gcattc/GHB.pdf

• Maxwell, J. C. (2005). Implications of Research for Treatment: Ketamine. Austin, TX: Gulf Coast ATTC.

http://www.utexas.edu/research/cswr/gcattc/Ketamine.pdf

• Maxwell, J. C. (2005). Implications of Research for Treatment: Rohypnol. Austin, TX: Gulf Coast ATTC.

http://www.utexas.edu/research/cswr/gcattc/Rohypnol.pdf

• Maxwell, J. C. (2004). Patterns of club drug use in the U.S., 2004. Austin, TX: Gulf Coast ATTC.

http://www.utexas.edu/research/cswr/gcattc/Trends/ClubDrug-2004-web.pdf

• Wallisch, L. S., Maxwell, J. C., & Spence, R. T. (2003). Adult inhalant users in the criminal justice population. Offender Substance Abuse Report, 3(3), 35-38, 43.
• Maxwell, J. C. (2003). Response to club drug use. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 16, 279-289.
• Maxwell, J. C. (2003). Update: Comparison of drug use in Australia and the United States as seen in the 2001 National Household Surveys. Drug and Alcohol Review, 22, 345-355.
• Maxwell, J. C. (2003). Profiles of methamphetamine users as seen in various data sets. Law Enforcement Executive Forum,3, 77-88.
• Maxwell, J. C., Bohman, T., & Spence, R. T. (2004). Differences in characteristics of heroin inhalers and heroin injectors at admission to treatment: A preliminary study using a large database of client records. Substance Use and Misuse, 39(6), 989-1008.
• Maxwell, J. C. and Spence, R. T., Inhalant users: A juvenile justice population of special risk, in K. Knight and D. Farabee, Treating Addicted Offenders: A Continuum of Effective Practices. Kingston, NJ: Civic Research Institute, 2004.
• Maxwell, J.C., Pullum, T.W. & Tannert, K (2005).Deaths of clients in methadone treatment in Texas: 1994-2002. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 78(1), 73-81.
• Maxwell, J. C. & Spence, R. T. (2005). Profiles of club drug users in treatment. Substance Use and Misuse, 40(9-10),1409-1426.
• Maxwell, J. C. (2005). Party Drugs: Properties, prevalence, patterns, problems. Substance Use and Misuse, 40, (9-10, 1203-1240).
• Maxwell, J. C. (2005). Emerging research on methamphetamine, Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 18, 235-242.
• Maxwell, J.C. (2006). Emerging research on methamphetamine. International Drug Therapy Newsletter, 41(3).
• Maxwell, J. C., Cravioto, P., Galvan, F., Cortes, M., Wallisch, L, Spence, R., (2006). Drug use and risk of HIV/AIDS on the Mexico-U.S. Border: A comparison of treatment admissions in both countries. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 82 (Suppl. 1), S85-S93.
• Maxwell, J. C., Spence, R. T. (2006). An exploratory study of inhalers and injectors who used black tar heroin, Journal of Maintenance in the Addictions, 3(1), 61-81.
• Maxwell, J.C., Tackett-Gibson, M, Dyer, J. (2006) Substance Use in Urban and Rural Texas School Districts, Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 13(4), 327-339.
• Maxwell, J. C., Finnerty, B. A., Rawson, R. (2007). Substance abuse epidemiology in the United States: A review of the indicator data in A. D. Kalechstein and W. van Gorp, Neuropsychology and Substance Use: State–of–the–Art and Future Directions. Lisse: Swets and Zeitlinger.
• Maxwell, J.C., (2006). Methamphetamine: Epidemiological and Research Implications for the Legal Field, North Dakota Law Review 82, 1121-1134.
• Maxwell, J.C., Podus, D., Walsh, D. (In Press). Lessons Learned from the Deadly Sisters: Drug Treatment Disruption and Consequences from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Substance Use and Misuse.
• Copeland, J. & Maxwell, J. C. (2007). Cannabis treatment outcomes among legally coerced and non-coerced adults. BioMed Central Public Health, 7:111.
• Maxwell, J.C., Freeman, J.E., & Davey, J.D. (2007). A Large Scale Study of the Characteristics of Impaired Drivers in Treatment in Texas. Journal of Addiction Medicine. 1, 4.
• Maxwell, J.C. and Freeman, J. E. (2007). Gender Differences in DUI Offenders in Treatment in Texas Traffic Injury Prevention, 8: 353-360.
• Rawson, R., Maxwell, J.C., Rutkowski, B.F. (2007). OxyContin abuse:  Who are the users?  A commentary on Carise et al., American Journal of Psychiatry 164: 1634-1636.
• Maxwell, J.C. (2008). Are we becoming more alike? Comparison of substance use in Australia and the United States as seen in the 1995, 1998, 2001, and 2004 national household surveys. Drug and Alcohol Review. 27, 473-481.
• Maxwell, J. C. & Rutkowski, B. A., (2008). Methamphetamine in North America, Drug and Alcohol Review, 27, 229-235.
• Rutkowski, B. A. & Maxwell, J. C. epidemiology of Methamphetamine Use--A Global Perspective. In J. M. Roll, R. Rawson, W. Ling, & S. Shopaw (Eds). Methamphetamine Addiciton. New York, Guilford, 2009.

   

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