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Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice
No. 185: Patterns of drug use amongst police detainees: 1999-2000
Toni Makkai, Doug Johnson and Wendy Loxley
ISBN 0 642 24206 2 ; ISSN 0817-8542
December 2000
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Abstract
Drug Use Monitoring in Australia is the only project in Australia that is routinely monitoring the use of illicit drugs by people detained by police. The results presented in this paper describe the extent of illicit drug use every three months in four sites across Australia.
References
- Media release: Increase in use of amphetamines amongst police detainees
- Drug Use Monitoring in Australia project
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