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[ DENS�Drug Evaluation Network System ]
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�Digital, Virtually Real-Time Information for Policymakers and Treatment Providers
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| National Drug Control Policy Director John Walters in drug impacted inner city Philadelphia neighborhood en route to acclaimed Project HOME treatment center |
DENS Ends the Guesswork and Helps Heal
- Tracks Drug Use Patterns Across America
- Analyzes new intake prisoner/patient info
transmitted digitally to DENS from drug
courts and from local, state and federal drug
treatment centers
- Patients' privacy protected
- Gives treatment centers software that
speeds effective evaluation of new
patients' needs resulting in more effective
treatment in less time
- Integrates ONDCP's new Random Access
Monitoring of Narcotics Abusers (RAMONA) system, expected to give
policy makers much more accurate count
of hard core drug abusers
- Created by highly regarded treatment
experts Herb Kleber, MD of Columbia
University in New York and Dr. A. Thomas
McLellan of the University of Pennsylvania's
Treatment Research Institute in
Philadelphia, where DENS is based
- Future DENS output: Evaluating effectiveness of wide range of treatment modalities
and programs within context of evolving
drug abuse trends.
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Last Updated: August 29, 2002
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