Marissa McCall, Jenny Mouzos and Toni Makkai present both self-report and urinalysis data from participating detainees for the calendar year 2003. They provide an overview of the characteristics of the detainees at each site, including self-reported drug use, prior criminal behaviour and treatment history. An addendum on violence in the home was run in the...

Toni Makkai and Jason Payne examine the illegal drug using and criminal careers of male participants in the Drug Use Careers of Offenders (DUCO) project. DUCO surveyed 2135 adult male offenders in prisons in Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania, and the Northern Territory in mid 2001. The report focuses on the development of the criminal career...

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...

The Queensland Drug Court is a pilot program established under legislation as a sentencing option within the Queensland Magistrates' Court. The AIC was commissioned to evaluate the pilot in terms of the level of drug dependency in the community, the level of criminal activity associated with drug dependency, and health risks to the community associated...

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...