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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Bill OLeary Conference Call April 20, 2017 Highway Safety Specialist Background 30 years with the VSP DUI Instructor Helped stand up DRE Program 3 years in drug unit,

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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Bill O’Leary

Highway Safety Specialist

Conference Call April 20, 2017

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Background

  • 30 years with the VSP
  • DUI Instructor
  • Helped stand up DRE Program
  • 3 years in drug unit, specializing

in Prescription Drug Fraud and Diversion

  • Retired as Commander of the

Traffic Safety Section

  • Currently EJS Program Manager

for Impaired Driving Enforcement Training

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Until Now, Drug Problems in US Were Addressed by Individual Agencies

  • Law Enforcement
  • Government
  • Highway Safety
  • Prevention
  • Treatment
  • Toxicology
  • Prosecution, Drug Courts
  • Legislation
  • State Medical Boards/Orgs
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It’s a Nationwide Problem

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Prescription Drug Abuse

  • In 2010, of the 38,329
  • verdose deaths in the

United States, 22,134 (60%) were related to prescription and OTC drugs

  • In 2011, drug misuse and

abuse caused about 2.5 million emergency department (ED) visits. Of these, more than 1.4 million ED visits were related to prescription and OTC drugs

Source: CDC

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How Do You Want Your State To Be Viewed?

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Common Types of Drug Diversion via Medical Doctors, Dentists, Pharmacists, “Junkies”, etc.

  • Dated
  • Practitioners who have not

kept up with appropriate prescribing methods

  • Demonstrates a failure to

understand changes in treatment as it relates to pain management (Barre, VT)

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Diversion Methods (cont’d)

  • Duped

– Practitioners who fail to identify current trends in diversion (brown ink) – Practitioners who fall victim to those who offer bogus documents, X-Rays, etc. (canine) – 26 doctors, 29 pharmacies – One arrestee admitted eating 60 Percodan per day

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Diversion Methods, (cont’d)

  • Deceitful
  • Practitioners who sell Rx

drugs for profit or other reasons

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Diversion Methods, (cont’d)

  • Drugged
  • Practitioners who become

drug addicts themselves

  • Search warrant

revealed aspirin in Percodan storage boxes

  • Rph with Tylox in his

socks and shorting Cocaine HCL for procedures

  • Hycodan Rx case
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Diversion Methods, (cont’d)

  • Besides obtaining hard

drugs through illicit means, what do most of the people above have in common when it comes to

  • btaining their drugs?
  • THEY DROVE to get their

supply!

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Current Status

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The Need for Data Will Only Increase

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The following were the number

  • f Enforcement Evaluations

conducted by the nation’s DRE’s in the years indicated: 2011: 28,580 2012: 30,206 2013: 27,334 2014: 29,236 2015: 28463

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  • Approximately 4,000 drivers are killed each year with drugs in

their system and this number may be low, based on the lack

  • f testing
  • 57% of fatally injured drivers had alcohol and/or other drugs

in their system

  • In NHTSA’s 2013-2014 Roadside Survey, more than 22% of

drivers tested positive for illegal, prescription, or over-the- counter drugs in blood and/or oral fluid tests

  • In 2013, 9.9 million people (3.8% of population) reported

driving under the influence of illicit drugs

Crashes as they Relate to Drugged Driving

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Crashes as they Relate to Drugged Driving

78 71 94 115 65 55 75 98 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 2012* 2013 2014 2015

Number of Deaths

Colorado Traffic Deaths, where an Operator or Driver Tested Positve for Marijuana

Operator Tested Positive Driver Tested Positive

*2012 is the first year with complete fatality data

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Crashes as they Relate to Drugged Driving

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Leading Drug Per State / 2003-2012

Source: Sobriety Testing Resource Center

54% 59% 55%

36%

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Leading Drug Per State / 2013-2014

Source: Sobriety Testing Resource Center

56% 48%

DE – 56%

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Three Key Aspects to the DRE Program

Enforcement Toxicology Prosecution SFST, ARIDE, DRE TSRP’s

Better testing, Oral Fluids

Impairment is Impairment

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Thank you! Bill O’Leary

bill.o’leary@dot.gov 202-366-0543