Drug Use Trajectories: Data from ADAM

The Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) program was a multi-site data collection network and data processing and dissemination program administered by the National Institute of Justice from 1998 to 2003. ADAM sites — including Anchorage — 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. (The Justice Center administered data collection for the Anchorage ADAM site from 1999 to 2003; see Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Project.)

This project collects research products based upon Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) collected at 43 research sites across the United States between 2000 and 2003, with an emphasis on what can be learned about drug use trajectories of arresteees from ADAM 12-month calendar data.