with ODMAP Fighting the Opioid Epidemic Tom Carr, Executive Director, Washington/Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Program

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1 Keynote Presentation Fighting the Opioid Epidemic with ODMAP Tom Carr, Executive Director, Washington/Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Program

2 LEA SENSITIVE Serving the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia

3 Special Thanks Invaluable Assistance From.. Kevin Armstrong Rob Feuerstein Brian Lantz Carl Walter Wayne Sweeney Jack Cibor

4 HIDTA S HISTORY High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Grant program - Office of National Drug Control Policy Created by Congress with the 1998 Anti-Drug Abuse Act Washington/ Baltimore HIDTA est. in 1994

5 High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas There are 28 regional HIDTAs 18% of all counties 65% of the population.

6 2016 HIDTA Measures of Success DTOs/MLOs Disrupted or Dismantled 2,665 63% were international or multi-state Wholesale Value of Drugs Removed from the Marketplace $17.4 Billion Cash Seizures $547,000,000 Asset Seizures $153,000,000 Total Drugs, Cash, and Assets: $18.1 Billion Return on Investment $75.34 Fugitives Apprehended 50,923 Spring 2017

7 W/B HIDTA Region W/B HIDTA serves the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, and parts of West Virginia. W/B HIDTA has 64 initiatives representing over 123 agencies, including treatment and prevention

8 Evidenced Based Principles Appropriate Assessment and Placement Address Criminogenic behavior Graduated Sanctions and Rewards Drug Testing Continuum of Services Minimum of Six Months of Treatment

9 Washington/Baltimore HIDTA To sum up the W/B HIDTA: Seek out and arrest those responsible for selling poison for profit. Treat those who are ill we recognize drug use disorder as a disease of the brain and body, NOT a Moral failure. Educate children-at-risk and teach them to become critical thinkers.

10 W/B HIDTA Mapping Unit Established in 1995 Crime and Place approach Geographer on staff Products included project based maps like: Pin Maps Density Maps Choropleth Map

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12 W/B HIDTA Mapping Unit Esri Shop Analysts make their own maps Mapping Unit projects have taken on a more Enterprise approach

13 Event Deconfliction Checking in time and space to detect conflicts between LE operations Addresses are geocoded and then a spatial/temporal search is performed to look for conflicts with other events Spring

14 Nationwide Event Deconfliction Interoperability among deconfliction systems Case Explorer RISSafe SAFETNet Common geocoding solution Spring 2017

15 Heroin and Other Opioid Epidemic Heroin & Synthetic Opioids are the number one drug threat to our Nation Spring 2017

16 Heroin and Other Opioid Epidemic Cause of death 1990 Deaths 2015 Deaths Change Car accidents 44,600 37,757 Decrease Guns 36,943 35,763 Decrease HIV 27,256 6,465 Decrease Drug overdoses 8,413 52,404 Increase >500%

17 Heroin Response Strategy 8 HIDTAs in 20 States 20 Drug Intelligence Officers 20 Public Health Analysts 1 Public Safety Coordinator 1 Public Health Coordinator Spring 2017

18 Public Health and Safety Partnership Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Focus on temporal and spatial patterns using overdose data analysis to: Track as a Disease Assess changes in patterns and behaviors Respond with actionable intelligence

19 HIDTA s ODMap Real-time surveillance of overdose incidents Timely sharing of data among public health and public safety entities Spike Alerts to allow decision makers to act quickly Spring 2017

20 ODMap Project

21 ODMap Project How ODMAP can help us? Promotes information sharing across disciplines and jurisdictions Allows timely sharing of overdose data Allows structured data analysis and automated reporting Ensures sensitive or restricted information remains for official use Promotes discussions about lessons learned and sharing of best practices

22 ODMap Project

23 ODMap Project Participation on County and Agency Basis 24 Counties in 9 States contributing Available nationwide for free 63 MOUs have been signed Available Nationwide April 1 FREE

24 DEMONSTRATION

25 Celebrating Lost Loved Ones to the Opioid Epidemic

26 Questions?

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