New Dashboard Tracks Emerging Drug Use Trends

CDC recently launched the Clinical Drug Test Dashboard, a new interactive tool provides actionable data and timely insights into trends from fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine — substances that continue to be primary drivers of overdose deaths.

The dashboard uses results from clinical urine drug tests ordered as part of routine care for adults diagnosed with substance use disorders.

While these data do not represent drug use rates in the U.S. population, the large volume of test results can help identify national and regional changes in drug use and co-use more quickly than many traditional data sources. A Key Findings page also summarizes insights from the most recent data.

Drug tests were conducted by Millennium Health, an accredited laboratory that supports clinicians in monitoring prescription medications, detecting illegal drug use, and assessing treatment effectiveness.