• Group Violence Reduction Strategy
  • Tools for Practitioners
    • Basic Implementation Guides
    • Advanced Tools
    • Innovations
  • Research Findings
    • Essential Readings
    • Full Index
  • FAQs
• Drug Market Intervention Strategy
  • Tools for Practitioners
    • Basic Implementation Guides
    • Advanced Tools
    • Innovations
  • Research Findings
    • Essential Readings
    • Full Index
  • FAQs

Pioneered in High Point, NC, in 2004, the National Network’s drug market intervention strategy has been replicated in numerous cities around the country to address the violence and disorder that comes with drug markets in many of their neighborhoods.  A formal evaluation is currently underway in East Nashville, TN, and a pre/post trend evaluation of a drug market intervention in Rockford, IL, found a reduction in property, drug, and nuisance offenses of 22 percent.  See Essential Readings and Full Index for details of the research on the strategy to date.

A former drug corner on Washington Drive and Fourth in High Point, NC, is quiet after the
city's 2010 drug market intervention in the Washington Drive neighborhood.