Registration is Open for the 2021 Symposium on Substance Use Research
RDAR Center is excited to announce that the 2021 Symposium on Substance Use Research will be co-hosted by:
Monday, October 11, 2021 by Kim Gocchi Carrasco
RDAR Researchers Publish New Report on Methamphetamine-Involved Overdose Deaths, Use Estimates & Treatment Utilization in Nebraska
Researchers at the Rural Drug Addiction Research Center (RDAR) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) recently published a report titled "Methamphetamine-Involved Overdose Deaths, Use Estimates & Treatment Utilization in Nebraska: Integrating the Most Recent Surveillance Data to Understand the Epidemiology of Methamphetamine Use in Nebraska."
Monday, May 10, 2021 by Kim Gocchi Carrasco
RDAR Researchers Publish New Site on Substance Use Related Treatment Center Admissions in Nebraska in 2018
Researchers at the Rural Drug Addiction Research Center (RDAR) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) recently published a website that visualizes admissions to substance use treatment centers in Nebraska in 2018. The data used to generate this tool comes from the Treatment Episode Data Set - Admissions, available here.
Wednesday, March 31, 2021 by Kim Gocchi Carrasco
RDAR Researchers Publish Report on Differences in Substances Reported at Admission in Nebraska
Researchers at the Rural Drug Addiction Research Center (RDAR) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) recently published a report titled "Analysis of Nebraskan Admissions to Publicly Funded Substance Treatment Centers in 2017 by Core-Based Statistical Areas." This report utilizes Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) which tracks both admissions and dis
Wednesday, November 25, 2020 by Kim Gocchi Carrasco
Registration Opens for the 2020 Symposium on Substance Use Research
The RDAR Center is happy to announce that the 2020 Symposium on Substance Use Research will be co-hosted by:
Wednesday, September 9, 2020 by Kali Patterson
RDAR Researchers Publish New Report
Researchers at the Rural Drug Addiction Research Center (RDAR) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) recently published a report titled "Changes in Substance Use Among Nebraskans and the Local Region from 2008-2009 to 2017-2018." This research utilizes national mental health and substance abuse survey reports summarizing recent findings regarding tr
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 by Kim Gocchi Carrasco
RDAR Center Lunch & Learn on May 22, 2020
The RDAR Center is excited to invite you to the Lunch & Learn Series on "Principles of Harm Reduction: Strategies for Meeting People Where They're At," presented by Patrick Habecker and Joe Caldwell.
Friday, May 22, 2020 by Colleen Syron
Lincoln Journal Star: UNL-built app reconfigured to perform COVID-19 contact tracing
Lincoln Journal Stars reports on RDAR's Bilal Khan's ODIN software platform is being used to research trace contact for COVID.
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 by Chris Dunker
Learning Seminar
Join the Rural Drug Addiction Research (RDAR) Center for their Learning Seminar Series! The following event is FREE and OPEN to the public - all are welcome, and there is no charge to attend this event.
Thursday, May 14, 2020 by Colleen Syron
Health Disparities Among Rural People Who Use Drugs: Possible Negative Impacts of COVID-19
Wiley D. Jenkins, PhD, MPH is a Research Associate Professor and Chief of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Department of Population Science and Policy at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. His most recent research examines disease transmission among injection drug users in rural communities, and he currently oversees the science and research direction of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Dr.
Thursday, April 23, 2020 by Colleen Syron