Aligning Substance Use
Disorder Metrics


The Long-Range Planning (LRP) team is working with the Office of Addiction & Recovery (OAR) to convene a data-focused interagency working group of data and evaluation experts.

Project goals

  1. Develop an understanding of what SUD measures are currently collected within and across state agencies.
  2. Identify opportunities to improve and align ongoing measurement across key state agency partners.
  3. Support the Subcabinet in creating a measurement framework to assess progress on meeting the strategies and priorities of the interagency state substance use plan.

Project Overview

In 2025, the Minnesota Legislature directed the Opioids, Substance Use, and Addiction Subcabinet to lead creation of an Interagency State Substance Use Plan. To support this effort, the LRP team has convened a cross-agency workgroup of subject matter experts in SUD measurement to support this project. Currently, the workgroup is developing the following core deliverables:

  • A key measure catalog that outlines the important SUD-related measures that are currently collected to assess performance, outcomes, and impacts of SUD programs and policies.
  • A data inventory and governance map that outline data ownership, storage, and use.

Once this work is completed, the workgroup will use these newly developed tools to look for opportunities to align measurement across multiple state agencies. This work will be aligned with the strategies that are developed as part of the interagency state plan development led by OAR. A set of recommendations will be provided to the Subcabinet for consideration and inclusion in the final interagency state plan.