Table 1.

Summary of US surveillance methods

Surveillance method	Administering agency or organization	Overview
BRFSS	CDC	Collects data on health-related behaviors (including drug use), chronic health conditions and preventive health practices Collects data in all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and 3 US territories
DAWN	SAMHSA, an agency in the USA Department of HHS. Discontinued in 2011	Monitors drug-related visits to hospital EDs and drug-related deaths in the USA
MTF	Funded by investigator-initiated competing research grants from the NIDA, a part of the NIH and conducted at the Survey Research Center in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan	Studies the behaviors, attitudes and values of secondary school students, college students and young adults in the USA
NSDUH	SAMHSA, an agency in the USA Department of HHS	Provides national and state-level data on the use of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs (including non-medical use of prescription drugs) in the USA
RADARS	Center for ARSH and NDCS	Measures rates of abuse, misuse and diversion of prescription drugs in the USA
YRBS	CDC	Monitors six types of health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among American youth and adults, including alcohol and other drug use

This information was adapted from: https://nsduhweb.rti.org/respweb/homepage.cfm, http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/; http://www.monitoringthefuture.org/, http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/index.htm, http://www.radars.org/.

NIH, National Institutes of Health.