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THE NATIONAL DRUG EVIDENCE CENTRE
The National Drug Evidence Centre (NDEC) is part of the University of Manchester Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, located on Oxford Road in Manchester.

NDEC carries out epidemiological, evaluative and policy related research in the field of substance misuse working within the Health Service and Criminal Justice Systems at local, national and European levels. NDEC has strong collaborative links with the European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction in Lisbon, IFT Germany and IVV Holland. In the UK, the work of the Centre is intrinsically linked to the Department of Health, Home Office and National Treatment Agency (NTA).

Recent /current high profile research grants and projects include:

Evaluation of PbR Drugs Recovery Pilots, Department of Health Policy Research Programme, 2011-2014

Epidemiology of Drug Misuse, National Treatment Agency, 2003-2013

Treatment Demand Indicator, European Monitoring Centre on Drugs & Drug Addiction, 2005-2013

Incidence, prevalence, harms and interventions effects for problem and injecting drug use: crime, morbidity & mortality, Medical Research Council, 2010–2013

Drug Treatment Outcomes Research Study (DTORS), Home Office, 2005-2007

Diversion and aftercare programmes for offenders using class A drugs – a systematic review and economic model, NHS, National Institute of Health Research, 2010–2012

Creating a Drug Data Warehouse (DDW), Home Office, 2009–2011

Time Trends in Adolescent drug & alcohol misuse, Nuffield Foundation, 2006-2008

NDEC is responsible for analyses and reporting of national government statistics on drug/ alcohol misuse treatment, delivered through a National Statistics hub (see https://www.ndtms.net/default.aspx) and is developing a National Data Library for use by policy makers, clinical services and researchers.

The Visualisation Group within NDEC is developing ViewIt TM - a web visualisation tool with content management and data extraction functions that allow investigation and contextualisation of any dataset in tabular, graphical and map based formats. See https://beta.ndtms.net/

For further information about the work of NDEC, bibliography and links to project websites, please see * http://www.medicine.manchester.ac.uk/ndec

Useful links

 * http://www.manchester.ac.uk


 * http://www.emcdda.europa.eu


 * http://www.nta.nhs.uk