Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA)

Links

Websites

• Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) program

  The US National Institute of Justice's Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) program tracks trends in the prevalence and types of drug use among booked arrestees in urban areas. The data play an important role in assembling the US picture of drug abuse in the arrestee population and have been a central component in studying the links between drug use and crime.

• International Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (I-ADAM) program

  The International Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (I-ADAM) program is envisioned as a research partnership among criminal justice organizations across the world. The goal of I-ADAM is to develop a standardized international drug surveillance system that will provide researchers the ability to compare the prevalence of drug use among arrestees in different nations, and allow researchers to assess the consequences of drug abuse within and across national boundaries.

• The Toxicology Unit

  The Toxicology Unit is Australia's foremost drug testing laboratory, specialising in clinical, medico-legal and workplace testing.

Documents, reports and papers

• Drugs and crime: the results of the second developmental stage of the NEW-ADAM programme (PDF 370kB)
  Trevor Bennett, Home Office (UK), Research and Statistics Directorate, 2000

  NEW-ADAM (New English and Welsh Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring). This report gives a clear assessment, underpinned by urine testing, of recent drugs consumption on the part of the general range of suspected offenders arrested by the police. Based on fieldwork in four English locations, it builds on earlier research carried out in five places which was presented in Home Office Research Study 183, Drugs and Crime: the results of research on drug testing and interviewing arrestees (Bennett 1998).

• I-ADAM in eight countries : approaches and challenges
  Bruce Taylor (ed.), National Institute of Justice (US), 2002

  This publication is primarily a progress report on the implementation of the International Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (I-ADAM) program in eight countries and on the challenges they faced.

• Drugs and crime : the results of research on drug testing and interviewing arrestees (PDF 585kB)
  Trevor Bennett, Home Office (UK), Research and Statistics Directorate, 1998

  This is a report on research in England based on interviewing and drug testing arrestees. In total, surveys of arrestees were conducted in five police force areas over the two-year period of the research. The first survey was conducted in Cambridge. The second and third surveys were conducted in Hammersmith in London and in Trafford in Manchester. The fourth survey was conducted in Nottingham and the fifth survey in the Sunderland City Division of Northumbria.