Recovery High Schools
This Fact Sheet provides information about Recovery High Schools, which are schools specifically designed for students recovering from a substance use disorder....
Public Safety
Crisis Assistance Helping Out on the Streets (CAHOOTS)
August 27, 2020
| Controlled Substances, Innovative Initiatives, Public Health, Public Safety, Recovery, Substance Misuse
The CAHOOTS (Crisis Assistance Helping Out on the Streets) mobile crisis intervention program responds to non-police emergencies in the cities of Eugene and Springfield, Oregon. CAHOOTS teams are staffed by a medic and a mental health crisis worker, and receive over 500 hours of training, which includes education on de-escalation and crisis intervention. ...
Local Police Departments Policies and Procedures – a Statistical Brief
August 26, 2020
| Controlled Substances, Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, Opioids, Prescription Drugs, Public Safety, Reports & Studies, Substance Misuse
The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics recently released statistical briefs on selected policies and procedures of local police departments and sheriffs’ offices, based on data from BJS’s 2016 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics survey. The tables show national estimates and distributions by population served on topics such as average hours of officer training by type of training, written community-policing plans, annual operating budgets, written directives for officer conduct, written documentation for officers’ display or discharge of firearms, authorized less-lethal techniques and restraints, and requirements for external investigations of deaths or use of force....
Mobile Outreach Vans
This Fact Sheet provides information about mobile outreach vans and the services they provide to at-risk communities....
Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program (ODMAP) Fact Sheet
May 19, 2020
| Controlled Substances, Fact Sheets, Law Enforcement, Opioids, Public Safety, Substance Misuse
This fact sheet provides basic information about the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program, also known as ODMAP....
HOPE Initiative
March 24, 2020
| Criminal Justice, First Responders, Innovative Initiatives, Law Enforcement, Opioids, Public Health, Public Safety, Recovery, Substance Misuse, Treatments
The HOPE Initiative provides a daylong training program on substance use disorders, treatment, and recovery for state and local law enforcement officers, enabling them to help people obtain and sustain long-term recovery. All 39 Rhode Island law enforcement agencies have completed the training...
Law Enforcement Against Drugs (L.E.A.D.) – “On the Streets and in the Classroom”
Established in 2014 by law enforcement and educational leaders in a small community in New Jersey, Law Enforcement Against Drugs (L.E.A.D) is a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization that provides drug and violence prevention programs across the United States. ...
2020 ONDCP National Drug Control Strategy
February 7, 2020
| Controlled Substances, Criminal Justice, Opioids, Public Health, Public Safety, Reports & Studies, Substance Misuse
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy has released this year's National Drug Control Strategy, which outlines efforts to reduce illicit drug use and its consequences in the United States....