Rise of Marijuana as the Drug of Choice Among Youthful Adult Arrestees. Researchin Brief

摘要

The research in brief examines trends in marijuana use detected throughurinalysis to track the progress of the recent epidemic among arrestees at 23 locations across the Nation served by the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) program-formerly the Drug Use Forecasting (DUF) program-from l987 through 1999. This report identifies nationwide drug use trends with mainstream population on the basis of self-reports of past-month use, a measure parallel to the length of time in which marijuana can be detected by urinalysis. Those trends were derived from data collected by the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) and Monitoring the Future (MTF) programs.