Improving Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Data Collection — Papers and Presentations From Planning Meetings

In 2010, NIJ and the Bureau of Justice Statistics held a series of meetings to identify ways to improve cost-efficiency through survey techniques that enhance data quality and information utility.

Listed below are links to papers and presentations from those meetings with federal staff and other topic experts.

• Presentation — Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring: Design, Execution and Extensions (pdf, 31 pages)
  by Abt Associates, Inc.
• Presentation — Drug Use Among San Diego Arrestees (pdf, 21 pages)
  by Cynthia Burke, Ph.D., Criminal Justice Research Division, San Diego Association of Governments
• Paper — An Overview of San Diego's Substance Abuse Monitoring Program and Law Enforcement's Need and Use of Local Information (pdf, 8 pages)
  by Cynthia Burke, Ph.D., San Diego Association of Governments, and Sergeant Darrell Williams, San Diego Police Department
• Paper — Operational and Quality Issues with Computer Assisted Interviewing for ADAM (pdf, 9 pages)
  by David Cantor, Westat and Joint Program in Survey Methodology, University of Maryland
• Presentation — Operational and Quality Issues with Computer Assisted Interviewing for ADAM (pdf, pages)
  by David Cantor, Westat and Joint Program in Survey Methodology, University of Maryland
• Presentation — What Difference Does It Make? Patterns in Drug-related Emergency Department Visits From DAWN (pdf, 30 pages)
  Elizabeth H. Crane, Ph.D., M.P.H., Drug Abuse Warning Network, Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
• Presentation — Advantages & Disadvantages of Drug Testing in Alternative Matrices (pdf, 41 pages)
  by Marilyn A. Huestis, Ph.D., Chief, Chemistry & Drug Metabolism, Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health
• Presentation — Arizona Arrestee Reporting Information Network (pdf, 44 pages)
  by Charles M. Katz, Ph.D., Arizona State University
• Presentation — Arrestees' Drug Use Trajectories: Using the ADAM Drug Use Calendar to Model Patterns of Illicit Drug Use (pdf, 14 pages)
  by Brad A. Myrstol, University of Alaska Anchorage
• Paper — Demonstrating the Utility of ADAM's Drug Use Calendar Data: A Group-based Trajectory Analysis of Crack Cocaine Use Among Adult Male Arrestees (pdf, 12 pages)
  by Brad A. Myrstol, University of Alaska Anchorage
• Paper — Assessing Dependence, Comorbidity, and Trauma (pdf, 10 pages)
  by Roger H. Peters, Ph.D., University of South Florida
• Paper — ADAM: Statistical Issues Related to Prevalence Estimates and Trends (pdf, 5 pages)
  by William Rhodes, Abt Associates, Inc.
• Presentation — ADAM: Statistical Issues Related to Prevalence Estimates and Trends (pdf, 12 pages)
  by William Rhodes, Abt Associates, Inc.
• Paper — Female Offender Drug Use and Related Issues (pdf, 9 pages)
  by Michele Staton-Tindall, University of Kentucky
• Paper — Collecting Sensitive Information from Drug Users (pdf, 7 pages)
  by Travis Wendel and Ric Curtis, Department of Anthropology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
• Presentation — Collecting Sensitive Information from Drug Users (pdf, 13 pages)
  by Travis Wendel and Ric Curtis, Department of Anthropology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
• Paper — The Use of Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Areas and Regions for Representing Geographic Variation (pdf, 6 pages)
  by Ronald Wilson and Timothy Brown, Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety Program, National Institute of Justice
• Presentation — The Use of Bureau of Economic Analysis Regions for Representing Geographic Variation (pdf, 5 pages)
  by Ronald Wilson and Timothy Brown, Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety Program, National Institute of Justice
• Paper — Drug Abuse Warning Network: Data and Reporting (pdf, 12 pages)
  by Al Woodward, Ph.D., MBA