Fighting the Opioid Epidemic

with ODMAPTom Carr, Executive Director, Washington/Baltimore High Intensity

Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Program

Keynote Presentation

LEA SENSITIVE

Serving the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia

• Kevin Armstrong

• Rob Feuerstein

• Brian Lantz

• Carl Walter

• Wayne Sweeney

• Jack Cibor

Special Thanks

Invaluable Assistance From…..

• 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

HIDTA’S HISTORY

There are 28

regional HIDTAs

18% of all counties

65% of the

population.

High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas

Spring 2017

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

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

W/B HIDTA Region

Appropriate Assessment and Placement

Address Criminogenic behavior

Graduated Sanctions and Rewards

Drug Testing

Continuum of Services

Minimum of Six Months of Treatment

Evidenced Based Principles

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.

Washington/Baltimore HIDTA

• Established in 1995

• Crime and Place approach

• Geographer on staff

• Products included project based maps like:

– Pin Maps

– Density Maps

– Choropleth Map

W/B HIDTA Mapping Unit

• Esri Shop

• Analysts make their own maps

• Mapping Unit projects have taken on a

more Enterprise approach

W/B HIDTA Mapping Unit

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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 2017

Nationwide Event Deconfliction

• Interoperability among deconfliction systems

– Case Explorer

– RISSafe

– SAFETNet

• Common geocoding solution

Spring 2017

• Heroin & Synthetic Opioids are the

number one drug threat to our Nation

Heroin and Other Opioid Epidemic

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 52,404Increase

>500%

Spring 2017

8 HIDTAs in 20 States

• 20 Drug Intelligence Officers

• 20 Public Health Analysts

• 1 Public Safety Coordinator

• 1 Public Health Coordinator

Heroin Response Strategy

• 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

Public Health and Safety Partnership

Spring 2017

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

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

ODMap Project

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

ODMap Project

DEMONSTRATION

Celebrating Lost Loved Ones to the Opioid Epidemic http://arcg.is/2iEu9FR

Questions?