The Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies was established at the University of Delaware in 1991 to facilitate collaborative research and publishing on substance abuse among social and behavioral science faculty, professional staff, and students. Administratively housed in the University's Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, the Center is funded entirely through sponsored research grants and contracts. The principal mission of the Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies is the production, dissemination, and utilization of scientific knowledge in two broad areas:

The principal mission of the Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies is the production, dissemination, and utilization of scientific knowledge in three broad areas:

• the etiology, patterns and consequences, and prevention and treatment of drug and alcohol abuse;

• the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, and the prevention of HIV disease among high-risk populations; and

• Post-marketing surveillance studies of prescription drugs with a potential for abuse.

Other Center objectives include:

• the training of graduate and undergraduate students in substance abuse research and associated quantitative and qualitative methods;

• serving as a substance abuse research information repository for students and colleagues seeking statistical and ethnographic data for secondary analysis;

• providing technical assistance to colleagues and local agency personnel seeking federal grant support for prevention and treatment programs; and

• sponsoring lecture and colloquia series, workshops, and conferences for members of the University community, the substance abuse and AIDS fields, and the public at large.