Impact of the DDRC

The overarching aim of the SR-DDRC is to produce a meaningful impact on our region by increasing the accessibility and usability of high-quality data and intelligence.

The center will be a major integrated source of information from a collection of the key public datasets related to the substance use crisis. Products resulting from these datasets will be academic manuscripts and presentations, data-driven public-sector reports, strategic community engagement, and other dissemination efforts to promote community knowledge and data-driven decision-making. The project will also develop a range of technical assistance materials to help users of the dataset to find the information they need, researchers to use the dataset, and other regions to develop similar databases.

It is our hope that the DDRC will centrally alter decision-making about the drug crisis in the heavily affected Southern United States by integrating drug data into an accessible, usable, high-value data resource for stakeholders from across sectors.

Below, we provide updates and publications created and shared by the DDRC. Over time, we will add press and other representations of the impact the SR-DDRC is making in the region.