This report presents the findings of a project funded by Victim Support ACT and ACT Policing to examine the experiences of victims referred by police to support services and the operation of the referral process in the ACT. Since the completion of the report in 2009, Victim Support ACT and ACT Policing have used it...

Lee Milner and Kiah McGregor examine the use of cocaine among a group of individuals detained by police and interviewed for the AIC's Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) program. The analysis shows that while most cocaine use occurs in DUMA's Sydney sites, use also occurs in other areas. Cocaine users are predominately multiple-drug users...

Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) participants are asked to answer a questionnaire about their use of drugs, as well as to supply a urine sample. This sample is tested for the presence of illicit drugs and compared with the self-reported answers in the questionnaire. In this report Kiah McGregor and Toni Makkai consider possible...

2002 was the first year of the second phase of data collection in the Drug Use Monitoring in Australia project, which has been running since 1999. There are now seven sites participating in the program which interviews detainees in police custody about their drug use: Adelaide city and Elizabeth in South Australia; Bankstown and Parramatta...