Update: What a fantastic session! In case you missed it, you can watch the replay here.
Do illegal drugs fit into your next mystery? Are you curious about the latest trends in illicit drugs and how they get to Ohio? This session is your session.
Orman Hall is an expert on the substance abuse crisis in the state of Ohio, and is a Glidden Foundation Visiting Professor at Ohio University. Hall formerly served as director of the Ohio Governor’s Cabinet Opiate Action Team and director of the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addition Services under Gov. John Kasich, and manager of specialized dockets for the Supreme Court of Ohio. Prior to that, Hall served as executive director of the Fairfield County Board of Alcohol Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services for 21 years.
Hall is a public health analyst and consultant for the Ohio High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area and as a consultant to the National Emerging Threats Initiative, a National HIDTA Program. The national program, part of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, provides assistance to federal, state and local law enforcement in areas determined to be critical drug-trafficking regions in the U.S. The OHIO HIDTA’s mission is to reduce drug availability by creating intelligence-driven task forces aimed at eliminating or reducing drug trafficking and its harmful consequences through enhancing and helping to coordinate drug trafficking control efforts among Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.
He is also the research lead for the Ohio Alliance for Innovation in Population Health, a statewide collaboration organized to address pressing population health issues in Ohio.
Stay tuned for more information on this program, happening from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. June 12!