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IACP Through the Years: Guam, USA: The New Drug Mecca

Located some 6,000 miles west of Los Angeles is a 210-square-mile island—Guam. It is an unincorporated United States Territory whose residents are U.S. citizens. Guam is best remembered as one of th...

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Opioid Use Disorders Among Police and Public Safety Personnel: What Law Enforcement Leaders Need to Know

It is well-established that opioid use disorders represent a current health crisis. In October 2017, Acting U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Hargan declared the opioid crisis a public health e...

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Law Enforcement Needn’t Serve Alone on the Front Lines of the Opioid Crisis

The opioid crisis is capturing attention across the United States as the sharp spike in overdose deaths continues its upward trend. In fact, accidental death from drug overdoses now far exceeds fatal ...

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Police officer giving sobriety test to young man to see if he is driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Police cruiser is out of focus in the foreground.

New Challenges and Old Solutions: Combating Drugged Driving

Driving under the influence of drugs (DUID) is having a serious impact on roadway safety as never before. In the United States, the involvement of drug-impaired drivers in automobile crashes is at an ...

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Leading a Community Solution to a Community Problem

The current opioid epidemic did not start overnight, and the situation has continued to progress significantly over the past two decades. Since the late 1990s, chiefs of police have battled this epide...

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Opioid Distribution on the Dark Web

Since its creation, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE’s) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has had a longstanding commitment to safeguard public safety and protect people from t...

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Pre-Arrest Diversion: The Long Overdue Collaboration Between Police and Treatment

In 1972, a U.S. federal initiative resulting from efforts led by the White House’s Special Action Office for Drug Prevention, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (predecessor to the Bureau...

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Rutland, Vermont, Case Study: Using DMI to Combat Covert Opioid Markets

According to a recent forecast, as many as 650,000 people in the United States will die from opioid overdoses over the next 10 years. Some 50,000 people died from opioid overdoses in 2016. When that f...