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The '''System to Retrieve Information from Drug Evidence''' ('''STRIDE''') is a [[United States]] [[Drug Enforcement Administration]] (DEA) program consisting of six subsystems providing information on [[illicit drugs|drug]] intelligence, statistics on markings found on pills and capsules, drug inventory, tracking, statistical information on drugs removed from the marketplace, utilization of laboratory manpower and information on subsystems analyzed outside of the DEA laboratory system where DEA participated in the seizures.<ref name=stride/>

==Purpose==
The system provides the medium for inputting, updating and displaying the results of analysis of substance evidence and for the characterization of physical and chemical characteristics of substance evidence to determine the origin of the evidence.<ref name=stride>
{{citation|url=http://www.dea.gov/foia/stride.html|title=System to Retrieve Information From Drug Evidence II|work=US-DEA}}</ref>

== Controversy ==
Academic uses of the STRIDE data to look for trends in pricing and other data has been criticized because the sampling entered into the system is limited to successful operations and is thus relatively small and not necessarily representative of the greater market.<ref name=crime-docs-imapact>{{citation|url=http://www.tni.org/article/economic-impact-illicit-drug-industry|title=The Economic Impact of the Illicit Drug Industry|work=Transnational Institute|date=December 2003}}</ref><ref name=openbook10021>{{citation|url=http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10021&page=75 |title=Data for Monitoring the Nation's Drug Problems|work=Informing America's Policy on Illegal Drugs|year=2001|doi=10.17226/10021 |isbn=978-0-309-07273-1 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=bulletin-2004>{{citation|url=http://www.unodc.org/pdf/bulletin/bulletin_2004_01_01_1.pdf|work=UN Offices on Drugs and Crime|title=Bulletin on Narcotics|volume=56|issue=1–2|year=2004}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.justice.gov/dea/resource-center/stride-data.shtml US-DEA Stride Data]

[[Category:Law enforcement in the United States]]
[[Category:Drug Enforcement Administration]]
[[Category:Government databases in the United States]]


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