We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2009
INTRODUCTION
In this final chapter of the book, we reflect on what has been found from the results of the New English and Welsh Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (NEW-ADAM) program as a whole. We briefly review the main findings from each chapter and consider the themes that have emerged. We also discuss what has happened to the NEW-ADAM program in the United Kingdom and the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) program in the United States since their demise. Finally, we consider some of the policy and research implications of the study.
SUMMARY
In Chapter 2, we discussed the research methods used in the NEW-ADAM program and described the method of urine collection and the personal interview. Arrestees were selected by a system of two-stage sampling with the first stage based on purposive rather than random sampling. We noted some of the limitations of the research including the considerable difficulties of interviewing arrestees in the chaotic conditions of police custody suites. Arrestees were often highly agitated, and some were potentially violent having been free on the streets just hours before interview. Despite these barriers, the research team succeeded in interviewing more than 4,500 arrestees during the research period and collected urine samples from almost all of them.
Chapter 3 examined the prevalence and incidence of drug misuse among arrestees. The results presented in the chapter provide evidence for the first time in the United Kingdom of the high levels of involvement of arrestees in drug misuse.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
