Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Project

Principal investigator(s): Robert H. Langworthy
Other project personnel:

Matthew Giblin

Cassie Atwell

Brad Myrstol
Project dates: 1999-2003
JC#: 0001
Agency: National Institute of Justice;
Abt Associates;
National Opinion Research Center (NORC)
Project amount: Approximately $32,000 per calendar quarter
Project status: Closed

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In 1987, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) initiated the Drug Use Forecasting (DUF) program to track trends in the prevalence and types of drug use among booked arrestees in urban areas. DUF, the predecessor of the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) program, operated in 23 cities around the country. ADAM, initiated in 1998, grew to operate in 40 data collection sites by the time the ADAM program ended in 2003. Anchorage was one of 12 sites added to the ADAM system in 1998.

As part of the nationwide ADAM program, the Justice Center collected data on the prevalence and types of drug use among booked arrestees in Anchorage during four two-week periods each year, once per quarter. Data was collected by Justice Center interviewers at Cook Inlet Pretrial Facility and Anchorage's Sixth Avenue Jail (through 2001) and at the Anchorage Correctional Complex (2002-2003).

ADAM was a multi-site data collection network and data processing and dissemination program. ADAM sites collected data under a centralized system that includes rigorously standardized procedures, minimum requirements for interviewers, and on-going accountability at all data collection sites. At each ADAM site, trained interviewers collected voluntary and anonymous interviews and urine specimens from adult male and female booked arrestees. (In some sites, juvenile male and female booked arrestees were also interviewed. Anchorage was not one of these sites.)

The National Opinion Research Center (NORC) managed the ADAM program operations under contract to the National Institute of Justice after the fourth quarter of 2001. Prior to that, program operations were managed by Abt Associates.

For more information about ADAM, see the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program Home Page at the National Institute of Justice.

Products

Articles

Atwell, Cassie and Giblin, Matthew J. (Spring 2000). "Drug Use Among Arrestees in Anchorage." Alaska Justice Forum 17(1): 1, 7-8.

Giblin, Matthew J. (Fall 2001). "Aspects of Drug Use: Arrestees in Anchorage, 2000." Alaska Justice Forum 18(3): 1, 6-8.

Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage. (Winter 2003). "ADAM in an International Context." Alaska Justice Forum 19(4): 2.

———. (Spring 2005). "Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM)." Alaska Justice Forum 22(1): 7.

Myrstol, Brad A. (Spring 2003). "Non-Citizens Among Anchorage Arrestees." Alaska Justice Forum 20(1): 7-10.

———. (Winter 2003). "Alcohol Use Among Anchorage Arrestees." Alaska Justice Forum 19(4): 3-4.

———. (Winter 2003). "Drug Use Trends Among Anchorage Arrestees: 1999-2001." Alaska Justice Forum 19(4): 1, 10-12.

———. (Summer 2009). "Drug Use Trajectories of Anchorage Male Arrestees: 2000–2003." Alaska Justice Forum 26(2): 1, 7–12.

———. (Jul 2009). "Homelessness Among Drug-Using Adult Male Arrestees in Anchorage, 2000-2003." Justice Center Research Overview 6.

———. (Aug 2009). "Criminal Offending Among Homeless Drug-Using Male Arrestees, Anchorage, 2000–2003." Justice Center Research Overview 7.

Myrstol, Brad A. and Langworthy, Robert H. (Mar 2005). "ADAM-Anchorage Data: Are They Representative?" Justice Center Working Papers 1.

Wood, Darryl S. (Mar 2008). "Criterion Validity of Self-Reported Drug-Use Among Alaska Native and Non-Native Arrestees in Anchorage, Alaska." Criminal Justice Studies 21(1): 49–60.

Conference papers

Wood, Darryl S. (Apr 2003). "Criterion Validity of Self-Reported Drug-Use Among Alaska Native and Non-Native Arrestees in Anchorage, Alaska." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Social Sciences Association, Las Vegas, NV.