Conducting Overdose Investigations

This course provides investigators various methods, strategies, and tools to investigate drug traffickers in a variety of settings. Class participants are exposed to real life videos of drug transactions and the different forms they can take (cars, streets, etc.). Participants go over the legal foundations necessary to recognize and then review current court decisions to corroborate legal foundations.

Ever wonder how traffickers communicate? Class participants also review intercepted communications of drug traffickers to get an idea on how traffickers communicate with their customers, co-conspirators, and how they view law enforcement.



Drug overdoses are a National Epidemic which touch every community in the United States. From the initial response to an overdose scene all the way to case presentment for final prosecution, investigating overdoses, fatal and non-fatal, can be complex. This course is designed to assist class participants in adding to their skillset when investigating overdoses. The class will go over the step-by-step process of conducting overdose investigations, the possible hurdles which may arise as well as possible solutions to these problems. Participants will also go over current drug trends which are driving the overdose problem.