Reported drug use is compared with urinalysis data. DUMA has been reporting since 1999.

This research investigates and documents the views of children and young people in alternative care (foster care and residential care) and in detention centres in Queensland. The research features a repeated cross-sectional longitudinal design enabling the Commission to identify changes in these views over time. The first phase was conducted in 2006, the second in...

Using data from the Drug Use Monitoring in Australia program, this paper examines the prevalence of drug driving among a sample of police detainees in 2005 and 2006. It found that two-thirds had driven after using drugs and/or alcohol in the previous 12 months, which is significantly higher than the incidence of drug driving in...

This report considers the relations between ethnicity and the dispositions towards learning necessary for successful participation in the Australian education system. In contrast to common assumptions about the cultural attributes of some ethnic groups, it considers how home and school practices help produce the attributes of learners, how these attributes are embodied as dispositions towards...

The study reports on self-reported benzodiazepine use using DUMA data since 1999. Use was lower than for heroin and at similar levels as amphetamines. It is frequently used in conjunction with other drugs, which indicates a greater potential for harm.