(Jan. 10, 2025) – The Midwest High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Investigative Support Center and the Midwest HIDTA Overdose Response Strategy teams have collaborated on a public health survey. The survey responses will be used to inform the Midwest HIDTA's annual Threat Assessment. The Office of National Drug Control Policy oversees the HIDTA program. It requires the individual HIDTA programs to discuss the drug threats in their area of responsibility in an annual Threat Assessment. With providers, organizations and other stakeholders helping fill out the survey, this provides a valuable viewpoint for the Midwest HIDTA to deliver within the Threat Assessment.
The Midwest HIDTA greatly appreciates hospitals' assistance completing the Midwest HIDTA Threat Assessment. Some notes about the survey: The survey is set up to allow respondents to partially complete the survey and subsequently return to the survey link (with the same computer and browser and without clearing any of the cookies on your computer) to complete the survey. This may not always work. Therefore, it is highly recommended that respondents complete the entire survey simultaneously.
If you have any troubles or questions, please contact Katie Sheets at (816) 891-5274. Complete the survey. The Midwest HIDTA requests that respondents complete this survey by Friday, Jan. 31, so they can compile the results and complete the Threat Assessment by the ONDCP deadline.
--Karen Braman