# National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS) Administrative Supplement - Poison Control

> **NIH NIH U01** · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · 2021 · $107,450

## Abstract

SUMMARY OF PARENT GRANT AND PROPOSED SUPPLEMENT
Parent Study: Through our parent U01, our National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS) Coordinating
Center aims to provide NIDA and the field with the most timely, salient, and valuable information on emerging
substance use trends. By expanding data collection to include both former NDEWS sentinel sites as well as
former Community Epidemiology Workgroup (CEWG) sites, and by incorporating novel surveillance methods
to ensure early detection of signals of new psychoactive substances and known substances, our Early Warning
Network extends geographic representation and provides a more complete picture of the size, direction, and
depth of substance use patterns in all US Census regions. We use novel surveillance methods to ensure early
detection of signals indicating emerging drug trends and harmonize surveillance data across sentinel and
CEWG sites. We will also conduct on-the-ground epidemiologic investigations on topics of immediate crisis or
need in order to provide functional feedback to impacted communities towards optimizing current and future
response, and we will disseminate results rapidly to the scientific community and the public alike.
Proposed Supplement: As an Early Warning System, NDEWS must be on the forefront of new trends in drug
use, and drug-related morbidity and mortality. There is a lack of current or recent drug-related mortality data
because processing of death information is lagged by months. Poison Control data, however, would allow us to
detect emerging trends in both poisonings and deaths (‘exposures’) related to drug use in 48 states in almost
real time. We will obtain Poison Control data from the Researched Abuse, Diversion and Addiction-Related
Surveillance (RADARS) System and examine trends in exposures related to use of heroin, fentanyl and its
analogs, cocaine, methamphetamine, and various new psychoactive substances, by month, for 12 months, to
alert scientists and the public about trends in hotspots in near real time. Rates will be based on sex, Census
age group, severity of effects (i.e., none, minor, moderate, major, death), route of drug administration, intent
(e.g., intentional misuse, suicide attempt), and co-drug use. For Aim 1, we will acquire Poison Control data,
monthly, and examine current trends in drug-related exposures and deaths, in near-real-time. For Aim 2, we
will obtain data going as far back as 2015 and examine trends retrospectively. For Aim 3, we will rapidly
disseminate statistics (monthly) on drug-related exposures to the scientific community and to the public
through NDEWS listservs and media outreach and disseminate retrospective trends through peer-reviewed
publications. We believe this is an extraordinary opportunity to quickly and frequently analyze drug exposure
data and disseminate findings.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10382615
- **Project number:** 3U01DA051126-02S3
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
- **Principal Investigator:** Linda B. Cottler
- **Activity code:** U01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $107,450
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2021-05-01 → 2022-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10382615

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10382615, National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS) Administrative Supplement - Poison Control (3U01DA051126-02S3). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10382615. Licensed CC0.

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