Focus Area: Substance Use

Population Health: One Pager Series

The Public Science Collaborative has created a series of one-pagers that describe our work in substance use and population health in quick, five minute reads. These one-pagers are meant to help break down our more complicated concepts into easy-to-read, easy-to-understand, and easy-to-hand-out flyers. Additionally, all of our one-pagers include QR codes that lead to the …

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Translating Research into Action: A Multi-Method Approach for Informing Substance Use Policy and Practice

This report was funded by a grant from the Centers for Disease Control. The use of multiple research methods develops an understanding of effects that substance use has on families. Research was conducted at a variety of levels, working to develop program ideas with experts, interviews with families in which substance abuse has or is …

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Methamphetamine Use in Iowa

This research was funded by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Via qualitative and quantitative methods, PSC identified a number of patterns in methamphetamine use across Iowa. Information was gathered from both people with lived experience and care providers, contributing to our understanding of best practices in providing services and resources to people who use …

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Iowa’s Health Information Platform

This research was funded by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Focused on prevention, this work specifically targets reducing morbidity and mortality rates related to substance use. Through the process of compiling data, prevention and intervention can be informed, targeted, and timely. Dashboards were created to promote equity in healthcare, inform action with data, improve …

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Recovery Ready Community Index: One-Pager

As part of our Quick Reads project, this one-pager gives a quick, five-minute overview of our Recovery Ready Community Index. Specifically, this one-pager focuses on understanding the Recovery Ready Community Index and what the scores derived from the index mean for the communities.

The Voices of Recovery: One-Pager

As part of our Quick Reads project, this one-pager gives a quick, five-minute overview of our Voices of Recovery page on recoveryiowa.org. Specifically, this one-pager focuses on the content and interactive nature of the webpage, which highlights both interviewed and user-submitted recovery stories.

Recovery Resource Finder: One-Pager

As part of our Quick Reads project, this one-pager gives a quick, five-minute overview of our Recovery Resource Finder tool on recoveryiowa.org. Specifically, this one-pager focuses on the capabilities of the tool as well as the resource categories that are available to website users.

Peer Support Meetings Finder: One-Pager

As part of our Quick Reads project, this one-pager gives a quick, five-minute overview of our Peer Support Meetings Finder, as implemented on recoveryiowa.org. Specifically, this one-pager focuses on the effectiveness and vision of the tool. By finding data and understanding recovery needs, the Peer Support Meetings Finder makes recovery a little more accessible.