Data Collection & Evaluation Advocate Tools
Achieving real policy and social change requires solutions that are not only visionary, but proven effective — and that means grounding every effort in strong, reliable data.
In addition, to fighting for policies that truly improve the lives of people who use drugs and those impacted by the war on drugs, we must have access to the most accurate and up-to-date information.
This page brings together essential data resources to help advocates shape informed strategies, strengthen policy proposals, and advance meaningful, evidence-based change.
- Principles for Advancing Equitable Data Practice (Urban Institute)
- Methodological challenges and proposed solutions for evaluating opioid policy effectiveness
- Impact evaluations of drug decriminalisation and legal regulation on drug use, health and social harms: a systematic review
- Opioid Settlement Principles Resource and Indicators (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Vital Strategies)
- Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation