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Research and Public Policy Series

No. 21: Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) : a brief description

Toni Makkai
ISBN 0 642 24136 8 ; ISSN 1326-6004
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 1999
$22.00 (including GST), soft cover. (plus postage and handling)

Abstract

The Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) project collects both self report data on drug use and criminal activity, as well as a urine specimen from people who have recently been arrested and brought to a local police station for charging. It aims to: provide reliable drug prevalence data on arrestees; provide aggregated data to local and national law enforcement and treatment agencies for monitoring, evaluation and assessment procedures; and provide timely and high quality data to inform the policy process.

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