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
SAI applies cutting edge technologies to challenging research problems in the field of public policy. We specialize in the study of behavior that is typically unobservable: criminal activity, illicit drug use, drug trafficking, money laundering and related phenomena. Advanced methods in mathematical modeling, statistical estimation, and computer simulation are brought to bear on problems often thought to be unsolvable by more conventional means.
SAI partnered with IMS Health and Computer Evidence Specialists to pursue a program of research on prescription opioid diversion. This project was sponsored by the Executive Office of the President, Office of National Drug Control Policy, and allowed estimates to be made for both the number of prescriptions and the number of morphine-equivalent milligrams diverted, by year, over the period 2008-2012, for each of twenty-one opioid molecules. These estimates are provided separately for states and zip-three areas. The evidence suggests a sustained and geographically widespread reduction in prescription opioid diversion when diversion is defined in terms of “doctor shopping” behavior.
(If you are having trouble viewing an article then right-click and select an open option.)