Regional Methamphetamine Legislative Conferences

The National Alliance for Model State Drug Laws (NAMSDL) agreed to partner with the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), Office Justice Programs/Bureau of Justice Assistance (OJP/BJA), and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to conduct four (4) regional planning events to assist states, counties or other localities, and tribal governments with their legislative and policy efforts to address methamphetamine and its related issues.

Each regional is intended to result in

1. a legislative and policy action plan for each state and its counties or other localities and for the region,
2. identification of laws and policies that are working or having positive benefits for a state and its localities that might be worthy of replication in other states in the region,
3. identification of issues, concerns, problems that exist in multiple states, including those that require interstate resolutions,
4. identification of the needs and priorities of tribal governments,
5. identification of the needs for federal assistance by states, counties or other localities, and tribes, and federal requests for assistance from other levels of government, and
6. identification of issues, concerns, and initiatives that may require collaboration among federal, state, county or other local officials and tribal governments to resolve.

In order to accomplish these objectives, each regional event will include:

1. a multidisciplinary selection of individuals from the states and tribes in the region,
2. plenary sessions to inform discussion and planning, and
3. a focus on facilitated working groups designed to produce prioritized actions plans.

For each regional conference, NAMSDL prepared a compilation to reflect the recommendations, priorities, and action plans identified in each working group at the conferences. See the links to the compilations for each regional conference below. In addition, at the request of NAMSDL, Carnevale Associates, based on a review of Conference-related materials, produced a written memorandum discussing potential implications for national and regional policies on methamphetamine and other drug and alcohol issues. These memorandums are available with the event details.

ONDCP Tribal Methamphetamine Summit, Aug. 2007

Midwest/Great Lakes Methamphetamine Legislative and Policy Planning Conference, Feb, 2007

West/Southwest Methamphetamine Legislative and Policy Planning Conference, Oct, 2006

South/Southeast Methamphetamine Legislative and Policy Planning Conference, July 2006