Implementing the Drug Market Intervention in Emerging Heroin Markets

This conference workshop presentation focuses on the principles behind Drug Market Intervention, the process of developing the intervention for a heroin market, its practical application in Rutland, Vermont and the implications for addressing heroin markets nationally. The National Network for Safe Communities' (NNSC) Drug Market Intervention (DMI) is a proven strategy to eliminate neighborhood level overt drug markets. Project Vision in Rutland, Vermont is a pilot project that has adapted the DMI approach to test whether its principles could disrupt a citywide covert heroin market with the same results. Project Vision brings together a partnership of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, public health organizations, and community programs, and has driven significant progress in Rutland in declining the levels of both overall and drug-related crime.`