Department of Defense
United States Army National Guard
Department of Homeland Security
Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement
Department of Justice
Bureau of Justice Assistance
Department of Justice
National Drug Intelligence Center
Executive Office of the President
Office of National Drug Control Policy
Understanding the causal dynamics of a system is often essential to the development of meaningful evaluation criteria. Our approach to performance management and strategic planning has been applied and refined for more than a decade, and because the problems that we study are typically “unobservable” in nature, our method of defining and organizing indicators is a natural extension of our work on detection.
SAI partnered with the United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance, to pursue a program of research involving the development of methods for measuring "doctor shopping" behavior, and for evaluating the effectiveness of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) in reducing nonmedical use of controlled pharmaceuticals. The study demonstrated the impact of PDMPs on per capita availability of these drugs and the effect, in turn, of per capita availability on illicit drug use.
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