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Title: The View from the Trenches: New England Methamphetamine Summit and Listening Post


1
The View from the Trenches New England
Methamphetamine Summit and Listening Post
  • July 24, 2009
  • James E. Copple
  • Strategic Applications International

2
Background
  • Americans are constantly in search of a new
    high.
  • General Barry McCaffrey, Former Director of the
    Office of National Drug Control Policy

3
Global Drug Balance
  • American account for 60 of global drug
    consumption.
  • Americans incarcerate more of its citizens for
    drug use than any other industrialized country in
    the world.
  • Americans produce only 4 of all illicit drugs.
  • Source United Nations Global Drug Strategy, 2005

4
The Number One Global Drug Problem
  • Methamphetamine is the number one global drug
    problem surpassing the economic, social and
    health consequences of all other illicit drugs.
  • United Nations Global Health Indicator Report,
    2007

5
The Drug that Keeps Coming Back
  • Generational Renewals
  • Alcohol
  • Marijuana
  • Methamphetamine
  • Meth Capacity Building Builds Capacity for all
    Ilicit Drugs
  • What it Looks Like
  • Lab increases
  • Pop Bottle Strategies
  • Economic Influences - Methland

6
Methland
  • Methland The Death and Life of an American
    Small Town, Nick Reding
  • Note the Title
  • Death and Life of an American Small Town
  • Economic Indicators
  • Social Fabric and Meth use patterns in rural
    America
  • The Price of Despair and the Futility of Hope

7
Trafficking Patterns
  • 43 of the Methamphetamine Coming into this
    Country crosses the Mexican Border
  • Organized Criminal Activity and the Distribution
    of Methamphetamine
  • MS 13
  • Mexican Cartels

8
Meth Summits
  • In 1997, the Drug Enforcement Administration
    warned that methamphetamine was soon to become
    the number one drug problem facing the citizens
    of the United States.
  • Nobody Listened.
  • Facilitated Planning Events on Prevention,
    Treatment and Enforcement

9
Meth Summits (cont.)
  • Sacramento
  • Washington State
  • West Virginia
  • Ohio
  • Midwestern Governors Summit
  • Kentucky
  • Arkansas
  • Indiana
  • Arizona
  • Georgia
  • District of Columbia
  • Oregon
  • Washington II
  • Hawaii II
  • Wisconsin
  • Utah
  • Iowa
  • Nebraska
  • Missouri
  • Montana
  • South Dakota

10
Eight State Meth InitiativeCOPs Initiative
  • Arizona
  • Indiana
  • Florida
  • Utah
  • Idaho
  • Minnesota
  • Kentucky
  • Hawaii

11
Summit Framework
  • The Summits bring together key stakeholders from
    state and local communities.
  • Promotes private public partnerships and
    inclusion of faith-based and community-based
    organizations.
  • Planning Document with Accountability Measures
  • Identify Emerging Trends

12
Emerging Issues
  • How do we define emerging?
  • Patterns of drug use in specific populations
  • Patterns of drug use in specific age groups
  • Various modifications or changes in substances
  • Cocaine
  • Crack
  • Heroine
  • Inhalants
  • Generational Forgetting

13
Organizational Responses Emerging Issues
  • Comprehensive approach vs. Silos of Response
  • Boston University School of Public Health
  • Centralize Coordination Decentralize Service
    Delivery
  • Inclusive in Planning Target Responsibility in
    Participating Agencies
  • Establish mandatory systems of reporting and
    accountability
  • Horizontal Credit and Reward Vertical Action

14
Examples of Emerging Issues Around Substances
  • Methamphetamine
  • Ecstasy
  • Prescription Drugs
  • Alcohol/Flavored Malt Beverages and Young Women
  • Poly drug use among adults
  • Women and substances

15
Prevention Strategies and Emerging Issues
  • Research has identified common themes or
    approaches that respond to the various influences
    that define emerging whether it is population,
    age or substance.
  • Risk Factors
  • Protective Factors
  • Environments of Resilience
  • Individual vs. Environment or Both

16
Treatment Strategies and Emerging Issues
  • Treatment Works
  • More Treatment Works
  • Family Engagement and Support
  • Family Based Interventions
  • Environmental and Workplace Support
  • Promoting policies and programs to reinforce
    access to treatment and recovery

17
Research to Practice and Policy
  • Summit participants are looking for practice and
    policy that emerge from research.
  • Summit participants are looking for research to
    be informed by practice.
  • There is a need to translate research into policy
    and practice. This remains a serious weakness in
    state and community planning.
  • Data remains in silos and states lack capacity to
    facilitate data analysis

18
Understanding Innovation
  • Moving Beyond Evidence-Based or Best Practices
    Framework
  • Changing dynamics in communities and
    globalization require innovation and
    experimentation.
  • Creating room for innovation supported by
    evaluation

19
Indicators of Emerging Trends
  • Neighborhood Drug Use Patterns
  • Arrestee Data
  • Emergency Room Admissions
  • School Based Surveys
  • Media Mainstreaming
  • State and Community Treatment Admissions

20
Challenges
  • Surveillance System to Monitor Trends
  • Committed Analysis to Monitor and Measure Trends
  • Building Community Capacity to Identify and
    Report Emerging Drug Use Trends

21
More Information
  • James E. Copple
  • Strategic Applications International
  • www.sai-dc.com
  • E-mail jcopple_at_sai-dc.com
  • Phone 301-455-0654
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