Drug Overdose Evidence: How Intelligence Collection and Analysis of Drug Overdoses Can Improve Drug Investigations and Lead to Major Drug Traffickers

• NCJ Number: 305020
• Author(s): Daniel J. Flannery
• Date Published: 2022
• Length: 2 pages
• Grant Number(s): 2017-DN-BX-0168
• Agencies: NIJ-Sponsored
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical)
• Award: Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Heroin and Crime Initiative: Informing the investigation and prosecution of heroin-related overdose

Annotation

This graphic by the Begun Center for Violence Prevention at Case Western University provides information about how drug overdose evidence can improve drug investigations and lead to major drug traffickers.

Abstract

This flier, published by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences Begun Center for Violence Prevention at Case Western University, provides a graphic explaining drug overdose evidence and how it can lead to large-scale analysis. Such analysis can potentially lead to major drug traffickers. The graphic provides a flow-chart-like illustration moving from cell-phone exploitation to drug evidence and successful prosecution. Details are provided for each stage.