Adult Male Arrestees

By Ashcroft, John, Attorney General

Book Id: WPLBN0000039501
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Adult Male Arrestees
Author:	Ashcroft, John, Attorney General
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Legislation., Economic & political studies
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Government Printing Office
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Publisher:	Government Printing Office


Citation APA MLA Chicago Ashcroft, B. J. (n.d.). Adult Male Arrestees. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Government Reference Publication

Excerpt
Excerpt: The Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) program measures the extent of drug use in the high-risk population of people who have been arrested. This preliminary report presents the first highly reliable, probability-based findings from the ADAM program. These new findings will be useful to policymakers and practitioners who are shaping their drug policies to meet local needs. Of the 38 sites that participate in the ADAM program, data about male arrestees were available from 27 and are being released early. The forthcoming annual report will present data for men, women, and juvenile arrestees from all 38 sites.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS I. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The ADAM redesign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ADAM data collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Benefits of the redesign. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 II. Overall Findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Illegal drug use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Demographics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 III. The Drugs of Abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Cocaine (crack and powder) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Methamphetamine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Opiates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Marijuana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 IV. Heavy Use and Need for Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Alcohol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 V. Drug Markets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Extent of drug-market participation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 How drugs are acquired (cash or noncash). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Place of purchase (open-air or indoor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Outside or inside the neighborhood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Problems obtaining drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 VI. Prospects and Possibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Appendixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Appendix A: The New ADAM Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Appendix B: ADAM Staff—National Institute of Justice and Abt Associates Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Appendix C: Appendix Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41