The principal mission of the Center for Drug and Health Studies (CDHS) at the University of Delaware is the utilization, production and dissemination of scientific knowledge related to substance use disorders, health risk behaviors, and justice system responses to inform program and intervention development as well as policy implementation. The Center promotes the use of data and analysis to support healthy communities in Delaware and beyond.
The research portfolio of CDHS is organized around three primary themes: (1) substance use prevention, treatment and recovery (e.g., opioid misuse, prescription drug misuse, addiction recovery, first responders); (2) health and health risk behaviors (e.g., mental health, child psychiatry, adolescent health and behaviors/school surveys, sexual violence); and (3) justice system policy and response (e.g., corrections, recidivism, de-escalation, cognitive behavioral therapy, opioid misuse response).