NCJ Number
177142
Date Published
1999
Length
4 pages
Annotation
This report describes the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) study begun in Chicago in August 1998 under a revised data collection system implemented nationally by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to replace the Drug Use Forecasting (DUF) program.
Abstract
The ADAM study calls for the collection of self-reported information and urine samples from recent arrestees; the urine samples are tested for the presence of 10 drugs. ADAM greatly expands the number of data collection sites nationally and introduces arrestee monitoring in several international locations. A number of other changes in ADAM directly affect how arrestees are sampled at each site and aim to ensure that ADAM data are based on more representative samples of arrestees than was the case with DUF. ADAM will collect data at the Night Bond Court from approximately 375 adult males and 125 adult females each quarter and from approximately 75 adult males and 25 adult females quarterly at the 5 suburban Cook County bond courts. Data will also be collected in DuPage County as part of the Chicago-area information reported back to NIJ. Over its 11 years of operation, DUF data have documented high rates of cocaine use, the rise of heroin use in 1992-93, the rise in marijuana use in 1994-95, and the failure of amphetamine use to spread to the Chicago area from western and other midwestern States. Seventy-nine percent of all male arrestees and 74 percent of all female arrestees tested positive for any drug in August 1998. Sampling changes could affect future analyses of trend data. Figures