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
13Spring 2017
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?