Drug Data Research Center to Combat the Opioid Crisis

Program goal(s) name: Create a regional drug data research center to enhance knowledge to more effectively address the overdose crisis. Program goal(s) description: Support the expansion of an existing statewide drug data repository into a regional drug data research center that promotes the collection, analysis, research, and dissemination of overdose-related information to reduce fatal and nonfatal overdoses, promote public safety, and support prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services, and serves as a model for other regions of the United States. Program objective(s) name: Improve access to real-time, actionable drug data. Project objective(s) description: Expand an existing statewide drug data repository into a regional data center to produce and disseminate web-based, real-time, actionable multisector drug data; Develop a transportable and/or replicable, open-source, regional drug data architecture; Facilitate electronic information sharing across multiple agencies across state lines; Encourage the sharing of additional information from law enforcement, prosecutions, jail stays, corrections (i.e., institution and community corrections), public health, treatment provision, and/or courts/pretrial services across states; Support collaboration among public health, behavioral health, criminal justice, and first responder agencies; Expand research to enhance knowledge to more effectively address the overdose crisis.