Finnerty Beth A
UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90025, USA.
J Psychoactive Drugs. 2003 May;35 Suppl 1:119-25. doi: 10.1080/02791072.2003.10400506.
For over 15 years, a semiannual meeting sponsored by the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs has served as a forum for aggregating data from a variety of sources to examine and monitor the fluctuations in the type, amount, and consequences of alcohol and drug use in California. These meetings of what is now called the Substance Abuse Research Consortium (SARC) have provided California policymakers with an ongoing mechanism for the compilation and sharing of epidemiological information on California alcohol and drug use trends. The tradition of SARC is based on collecting and reviewing epidemiological information: that is, the communication of trends and patterns of alcohol and drug use, emerging drug combinations, shifting user demographics, and new user populations. This article presents a historical perspective of the evolution of the group started under the name "The Statewide Epidemiology Work Group (SEWG)" to its current status as SARC (a more comprehensive history of SARC appears in an article by Anglin and Urada in this issue). It also provides a summary snapshot of the current substance abuse situation in California through the use of substance-related statistics and regional reports.
15 多年来，由加利福尼亚州酒精与药物项目部主办的半年一次的会议一直作为一个论坛，用于汇总来自各种渠道的数据，以检查和监测加利福尼亚州酒精和药物使用的类型、数量及后果的波动情况。这些如今被称为药物滥用研究联盟（SARC）的会议，为加利福尼亚州的政策制定者提供了一个持续的机制，用于汇编和分享有关加利福尼亚州酒精和药物使用趋势的流行病学信息。SARC 的传统基于收集和审查流行病学信息：即酒精和药物使用的趋势和模式、新出现的药物组合、不断变化的用户人口统计学特征以及新的用户群体的信息交流。本文呈现了该组织从最初名为“全州流行病学工作组（SEWG）”发展到如今 SARC 现状的历史视角（本期 Anglin 和 Urada 的一篇文章中呈现了 SARC 更全面的历史）。它还通过使用与药物相关的统计数据和地区报告，提供了加利福尼亚州当前药物滥用情况的简要概述。
