The Center for Drug and Health Studies (CDHS) facilitates collaborative and engaging primary research on substance abuse, health risk behavior, health services, and health policy among social and behavioral science faculty, professional staff, and graduate students. Administratively housed in the University’s Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, the Center is funded entirely through sponsored research grants and contracts, and is committed to achieve levels of excellence, intensity, and breadth of research.  The Center provides a national research focus as well as service to the State of Delaware.

Originally established in 1991 (as the Center for Drug & Alcohol Studies), the Center was renamed in 2014 to more accurately reflect the expansive nature and new foci of the Center’s directives and approaches to research.  The principal mission of the Center for Drug and Health Studies is the utilization, production, and dissemination of scientific knowledge in various aspects of substance abuse, health behaviors, and health service to inform program and intervention development as well as policy implementation. 

It is a great resource for UD students looking to focus on the the drug side of the opioid crisis.