CTAC, in consultation with the National Institute on Drug Abuse, is providing the most advanced facilities to the nation's premier teams of medical researchers working on the underlying causes of drug dependence. The goal has been accomplished by providing leading medical research institutions with neuro-imaging facilities, infrastructure, and technology necessary to support their substance abuse research. Technologies that meet the needs of police officers, narcotics investigation units, and prosecuting attorneys are being pursued, too. These technologies provide improved drug detection, communications, and surveillance devices and methods to share drug crime investigative information. After these technologies are proven at the federal level, they are provided to state and local law enforcement agencies through the continuing Technology Transfer Program.
Technology plays an important role in safeguarding our borders from the flow of illicit drugs.
To examine shipments as they enter the country coded aperture and neutron probe technologies are being developed.